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BBC News
21-05-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Church of Scotland to stop printing Life and Work magazine
The Church of Scotland says it can no longer afford to print its 146-year-old magazine, Life and Kirk's General Assembly in Edinburgh was told on Tuesday that publication of the monthly magazine would end later this readership and a "growing" financial deficit was blamed for the magazine is editorially independent of the Church of Scotland. Lynne McNeil, who has edited Life and Work for 23 years, said many print publications were struggling due to a market of "diminishing returns".She said the magazine's core audience was among the 68,160 worshippers on average who attended church on number of worshippers before the Covid pandemic was about 88, McNeil said that Life and Work lost sales every time a church Jim Stewart, convener of the Life and Work advisory committee, said the magazine had "enhanced and strengthened" the Church of Scotland's national are expected to be put to next year's assembly about a new General Assembly is an annual gathering of the Kirk's 2023, it heard warnings that hundreds of churches would have to close due to falling membership and dwindling income. 'Long way short' The Free Church has also said it would end publication of its magazine, The Record, in the coming Alasdair MacAulay, chairman of the Free Church communications group, said 100 years ago it would sell 10,000 copies but readership had fallen to about 1, told BBC Naidheachdan: "That's a long way short and it's continuing to fall all the time unfortunately."The Record is published every second month.
Press and Journal
29-04-2025
- Business
- Press and Journal
Former Wick church on North Coast 500 route to go under the hammer
An impressive former church on the NC500 route will go under the hammer at auction this week. The substantial building – once the town's Free Church – sits on Wick's Bridge Street has been given a guide price of £115,000. It will go up for sale in a timed online auction on Thursday. Auctioneers from Future Property Auctions will open bidding at £107,000 as developers battle it out. The former church has been earmarked as having 'enormous potential' for redevelopment into apartments. The property faces onto the town's main thoroughfare to John O'Groats, which forms part of the North Coast 500. Comprising two floors, the town centre building is said to be in excellent condition. Pictures taken of the building's interior highlight several key features, including the stained-glass windows and a stage. The church dates back to the 1800s and was designed by William Johnston Gray of Berwick and is Gothic in style. The church was decommissioned as a place of worship and has since been utilised as a retail space. Alterations have been made to the building's interior to create open plan spaces. Most recently, the Bridge Street property has housed the town's Jack's furniture and flooring sales business. Bidding for the Caithness property will begin at 10am on Thursday.
