CHILDREN; Questions about the Christmas story can trap the unwary parent. Deborah Holder reports

A former adviser to the Salvation Army appeared in court yesterday charged with stealing pounds 853,000 from the charity.

The Young Accountant of the Year is also a Salvation Army elder. Roger Trapp reports

From Mr Colin Fairclough

In an essay in his book Utopia and Other Places, Richard Eyre makes a number of telling points about Guys and Dolls. "I never saw a stage production until my own," he writes, "not even the 1979 Half Moon Theatre production, whose director told me that Guys and Dolls was so good that not even a director could mess it up."

Three generations of women from the same family talk to Celia Dodd about the changing nature of childbirth during the 20th century

Lawyers acting for the Salvation Army have recovered almost $5m (pounds 3m) more than the $8.8m (pounds 5.7m) lost in a bogus investment racket involving conmen with Mafia links.

Rosemary West trial: Guilt and remorse of sex attack victim still undergoing therapy 23 years after assault at Cromwell Street

Who is Father Michael Seed, this priest that Tories like so much

The abuse of power by one Anglican priest in Sheffield no more invalidates contemporary attempts by the Church to communicate to those beyond its doors than the abuse of power by a young man at Barings Bank negates the crucial workings of the entire City of London.

From Dr John J. Roche

Religion/ convert who converts

SMALLER charities are struggling to find qualified volunteer trustees because desirable candidates are being lured to paid positions with quangos and corporations.

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