At Saddleworth Rushbearing Festival, St Chad's church in Saddleworth last week, had rushes strewn all over the floor and the banners of the previous 40 years hung up around the interior of the church.

But in Littleborough, where we helped out with the rushcart this year, the church St Barnabas is dead against the rushbearing festival, and don't want ( Read more... )