Chatteris

An egalitarian vicar has left a group of civic dignitaries sitting on their, well, dignity. Pam Potts, chair of Fenland District Council in central England, requested three dozen seats to be reserved at the front of St Peter and St Paul’s Church at Chatteris, near Cambridge, for the council’s annual carol service. Vicar James Thomson refused, telling Potts: ”All are equal before God.”