Dozens of parishioners made the journey across the Pennines to Leeds for the Franciscan Sisters' live nativity and a visit to the city's Christmas market.

Tiny, enormous, old, new, handcrafted, inflatable! Parishioners brought a fantastic variety of cribs to be blessed ready for the Christmas season.

St Therese is one of the Church's most popular saints. A coach load from St Clare's visited her relics at Carfin in Scotland.

With great sadness we learned that Fr Michael Lakeland, Parish Priest of St Clare's 1982-2008, died on 17th July.