reims, sens, senlis, soissons, beauvais, canterbury, and chartres would soon show the influence of the new saint-denis. the medieval cathedral was the focus of popular pride and intense rivalry, for the prestige and importance of a town was determined largely by the size, height, and beauty of its cathedral. this rivalry pushed church spires to unprecedeed heights. the spire of chartres would extend beyond the top of a 30-story skyscraper. a 40-floor skyscraper would be needed to surpass the spire at strasbourg. the dimensions of the cathedral at amiens made it possible for the entire city, 10,000 people, to attend one ceremony. but it was in the height of the vaulting that the most intense competition reigned. when the vaulting of notre dame in paris achieved a height of 108 feet, chartres rose 121 feet above the ground. reims then surpass this with 125 feet. next, amiens rose 139eet. finally beauvais cathedral, which would have beaten them with a vault of 158 feet, went beyond the limits of safety and medieval engineering skill, and the walls of the choir collapsed. despite isolated

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the canterbury will welcome senior teams and were coming to you from tied to the list if he is impressed lol suspected to have you with us and his bubbly happy today britain house alarms no washing service helpline. sounds like deep sea fishermen are coming under pressure. lance collins as fairytales like to be the most part. for several weeks now britain's headlines have been dominated by the city of slots. since christmas the south west of england has been affected particularly badly by storm fronts sought protection systems have collapsed several people have been killed and entire regions are still underwater. but the somerset levels. this low lying area was rested from the sea hundreds of years ago authorities in london struggled to find a response and place the blame game. in the meantime flood victims taking matters into their own hands. mr wrote in the southwest in english village of thorny has become a waterway. locals are in this together. many of the houses he has been sliding for weeks. yet like rugby league roman who has lived in the village for more than thirty years means n

surprised, i concurred and he said, i thought you'd just be reporting on the archbishop of canterbury'sermons. my first convert. it was quite a victory to savor. and often gave pause for thought. clearly many did think of my beat as religious news rather than religion in the news. in fact, i would say the topics i covered over those 10 years as religion corpte and later as editor and presenter, would break down into two basic categories. the obvious religion story. the pope is dead. the gay bishop is elected. and the category two story. how and why religion might fit into political and cultural events unfolds in various parts of the world? clearly there prl overlaps between the two, not least in the election of the first openly gay bishop in the world. that was an event that would mark a key moment in the culture wars, which sent shockwaves around the community. aided and abated by the media the new digital media was speeding up the news and amplifying the reaction. the aftereffects of that election are still being felt, not the least in other denominations where the gay issue had been

canterbury future life long job in china despite all the criticism directed at official huge number of chinese people to apply for the job every year and she doesn't and the national service exam the nine hundred other applicants. and in two thousand thirteen the total number reached one point one million nationwide. last year loss of servants are to complain about their jobs the internet. there was no dowry. according to the article for the people should be an all party committee secretary usually a power to move to that of deputy mayor. an average county the secretary's salary is around five hundred to eight hundred dollars per month. with actual rambo is that the annual income of less than fifteen thousand us dollars. the article mentions that a middle income self employed entrepreneurs in the county can easily make more than fifteen thousand us dollars per year. according to the official data and to dump three servant outings around one point one times the average income of local residents. oh by the end of the eleven member declined one point one times the average income. with the

the survey found culprit in my be a nation the former archbishop of canterbury's words not mine and itfar from a nation of atheists. spiritual beliefs have found across the board, not just those who follow one of the established its good report found were than half the british police spiritual force is can influence human thoughts or actions with the world around them and more than one third of the nonreligious disbelief. one in six of those polled or someone they knew had experienced a miracle. many believe in angels and younger people are anything more likely to hold such beliefs than older ones. in other words, looking at the subject of spirituality through the lens of established faith no longer reflects what's going on, at least in britain in the u.s. here in the u.s., websites such as the "huffington post" are reflecting and informing this development. there's a blurring of the line between analysis and commentary. more personal and how-to columns there and elsewhere on the web, people interested less in dogma handed down enforced by religious leaders and more an individual pract

the mona lisa on the canterbury take responsibility because my ghana has had celebrities the thing is tony clark in the last seven years before that we have a tradition of having someone from the community lead the tories i have new management said he wanted to go back to their roots and traditions. i didn't go to the community so the invite me over to this week's carnival is a rare opportunity for me as my mind tonight residents to take any but the center of town. the medical people in mine data as real as the name will be hitting the poor beast. she is already a queen and hutch me missy. so she has already been elected by a handmade is i buy the entire neighborhoods in time to bow to the entire tree and see as they have already likes to queen. but today he did she puts the crown on and shares the wells that she is the queen. it's one day dense any deals cream sauce on top every wednesday in the spotlight is on saturday when shells number into history perks in front of a global audience of millions that brings us to be false and get today. log on. a new moral montage that is complete

i think we should listen to the words of george carey, the former archbishop of canterbury who said this. the churches should be aware of the dangers of blindly defending a gargantuan welfare budget that increases politician would cut as a matter of economic common sense. i think serious politicians have to engage in this and that should go for everybody. >> ed miliband. [shouting] >> mr. speaker, i join my honorable friend and the prime minister in congratulating team gb on a brilliant performance at the window limits but as the threat of floods passes there's thousands out of their homes. some are still underwater and hundreds of businesses and farms are still struggling to recover. the committee on climate change, the house of commons library and the uk statistical authority have all now said that government investment and flood defenses has fallen. in the light of this an event we have seen, does the prime minister think it's right to revisit the plan for investment and flood defense? >> we will look very carefully at the plan for flood defenses but, of course, without spending figur

the postman canterbury can join the conversation on facebook and twitter ash that the two for today. those who marched in the pirates annual expressing to worry that the socialists are trying to undermine family values a word it's unfounded says the government however falkland knocked down and getting word this afternoon that's a bill that was supposed to be presented. on the reform of family values has been put on the backburner. we stayed for two thousand and fourteen your thoughts and assume it's just a new fictional will be saved from the beginning that's the good and i've come to me that an innocent and romantic way and it was the defending fonts and is seen at the front wheel spruced weeks. i have to step back to michigan use full wall of the film this weekend and for the moon to finance the week he knew the date of the last nine months. i'm pleased to see downtown worse when we make them too the insurance for one full for the future. i don't seem to be milked come back to the sea schubert for the time being be understood in the front of the timid the state government claims th

program i would be trusted to be a regular news journalist if i was interviewing the archbishop of canterbury, i would be expected to be putting the tough questions to him and would be just to do so, but if there was somebody else there who was a little bit more what do spirituality and was told to go really hard on them because of this sort of suspicion of it and the fact and it really was not that justified as religion. >> you started enter some of my question. i was just wondering, you were talking earlier about having to defend their religious beat with the bbc. i was wondering how you see journalists approaching defending the coverage of rising mediated religious practices if i can use the term of a box religion, and i was wondering if you had how journalists would approach issues of legitimacy and authenticity with their religious experience as their increasingly mediated. >> i think it is quite hard for religion journalists to go into these areas. because for instance when i was religion correspondent i was often unraveling trying to and picked weather a war with sectarian or religious

he said, i thought you would just be reporting on the archbishop of canterbury's sermons. my first convert. it was quite a victory to savor. it gave pause for thought about this as religious news. i would cover many topics as editor and presenter, and they would break down into two basic categories. the obvious religion story. the pope is dead. the gay bishop is elected. and a category two-story. how and why religion might fit into events unfolding in parts of the world? there were overlaps, not least in the election of the first openly gay bishop in the world. that was an event that would mark a key moment in the culture wars, which sent shockwaves around the community. the new digital media was speeding up the news and amplifying the reaction. the aftereffects are still being felt, not least, and other denominations where the gay issue had been fought over internally, mirroring what is happening in wider society. just this week, we saw the u.s. supreme court place a hold on gay marriages in utah. let me say that again, gay marriages in utah. if you had told me, as i watc