who then “melted away” when asked to become involved in the church first. The Rev Matthew Firth, 41, who was a priest at St Cuthbert’s in Darlington between 2018 and 2020, gave evidence to ...

Claims by a former Darlington vicar of the church being a "conveyor belt" of asylum baptisms have been branded as nonsense by the Church of England. The Diocese of Durham was responding to claims ...