Man dies after being hit by train on crossing - Yorkshire Post

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Published on Tue Jul 12 08:46:10 BST 2011
POLICE were last night investigating an incident on the East Coast Main Line in Yorkshire which left a man dead and a three-year-old girl critically injured.
British Transport Police said the pair were hit by an express train bound for Leeds near a pedestrian crossing over the track about half-a-mile from Adwick station, north of Doncaster.
Officers said the 28-year-old man and the chil(router,verizon wireless,wireless network,wireless internet,i phone,i phone verizon,my verizon wireless,wireless adapter,att wireless)
d were thought to be from the nearby village of Bentley, although neither of them had been identified last night.
A BTP spokesman said: “The child was injured and has been airlifted to Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
“The man was pronounced dead at the scene.
“Officers are currently working to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident and to establish the identities of both the man and child.”
He said the train involved was the 10.35am East Coast King’s Cross to Leeds service.
Services operated by both East Coast and Northern Rail on the route were badly disrupted yesterday as specialist search officers examined the scene.
Northern Rail services between Doncaster and Wakefield Westgate were replaced by buses, while trains continued to run between Wakefield and Leeds.
The tragedy is the second to happen on the East Coast main line near Doncaster in the last month
An elderly man was struck by a train on the Doncaster to York stretch of line in mid-June.
The body of the 69-year-old was found in undergrowth on Tuesday June 14 next to a level crossing.
Police said that man had been struck by a train near a crossing between Arksey and Bentley just before 7pm the previous day.
British Transport Police officers had conducted an extensive search of the lines and surrounding area – involving both ground units and a helicopter – on the Monday night before finding the body on Tuesday morning.
Officers said the pensioner’s death was not being treated as suspicious.


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Church of England faces being wiped out, report warns - Telegraph.co.uk

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has acknowledged that the Church must devote more energy to increasing the number of regular worshippers over the next five years Photo: PA(router,verizon wireless,wireless network,wireless internet,i phone,i phone verizon,my verizon wireless,wireless adapter,att wireless)

In the last 40 years the number of adult churchgoers has fallen by half while the number of children regularly worshipping in public declined by 80 per cent, the study says.(router,verizon wireless,wireless network,wireless internet,i phone,i phone verizon,my verizon wireless,wireless adapter,att wireless)

The Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham, the Rt Rev Paul Butler, will present findings to the Church's national assembly, the General Synod, in York on Saturday.
Synod members will be urged to vote for a new national drive to recruit more members.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, has acknowledged that the Church must devote more energy to increasing the number of regular worshippers over the next five years.
The report, Mission Action Planning in the Church of England, states that the "sharp" fall in churchgoing since 1970 poses a significant threat.
"This decline in membership, and the accompanying rise in average age, means that fewer people are becoming disciples of Jesus Christ, and that the Church is able to have less impact and influence in the public realm, both nationally and in the transformation of local communities," it says.
"We are faced with a stark and urgent choice: do we spend the next few years managing decline, or do we go for growth?
"In other words, do we accept the continual numerical decline of the Church of England as inevitable, or do we dare to believe a different future, that God might want his Church to grow, in holiness and in numbers?"
According to official figures, the number of worshippers attending church each week fell by 30,000 between 2007 and 2009, to 1.13 million.
Church of England officials argue that the decline partly reflects the nature of modern society, in which many kinds of membership organisation - including political parties - have lost supporters.
The House of Bishops is expected to oppose Bishop Butler's motion calling for a "national mission action plan" to help parishes grow. His critics argue that recruitment is most effective at a local level.
The General Synod will also hear a call for an emergency debate on homosexuality. Church officials will be accused of "woeful" failure to protect the institution of marriage from erosion by the rise of civil partnerships and Coalition plans to allow same-sex couples to register their partnerships in religious settings.
A lay member of Synod, Andrea Minichiello Williams, will urge the Archbishops of Canterbury and York to calls an "emergency" debate to discuss Church's stance on marriage reforms.
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