内容摘要：covers the VAT on repairs costing more than £1,000 on listed buildings used as places of worship.

covers the VAT on repairs costing more than £1,000 on listed buildings used as places of worship.

Jurors were told the tree was a much-loved feature in Northumberland and had global significance for its position on the former frontier of the Roman empire.Some small business owners in Wiltshire have said trading in cash has benefits - after the government said that, for now, firms will not be forced to accept it.

Bradley Buechel runs a coffee shop in Chippenham and said they had plenty of people wanting to pay in cash: "It's perfectly fine for us. We encourage it."There are concerns that not being able to pay in cash will affect vulnerable people.this week stopped short of recommending a change in the law to force businesses to accept cash, but said the government had to improve its monitoring of the issue.

Mr Buechel runs the Nest coffee shop in Chippenham, as well as a tyre business in nearby Melksham: "Cash is actually better because there is no transactional fee. On card you have to pay a processing fee and you have to wait.""I think it's good for society with cash. There is a huge demand for it."

One issue for small businesses, however, is having to deposit the cash at a bank, when many branches are disappearing from towns.

Becky Lyons owns the Pawesome Pet Shop and said card use could vary depending on the time of the month, but generally paying by card was most popular.A country once seen as a citadel of global Catholicism had seen plummeting church attendance as the moral credibility of bishops and priests was undermined by the twin forces of secularisation and the clerical abuse crisis.

In welcoming the Pope, then Taoiseach (Irish prime minister) Leo Varadkar told him Ireland was a more diverse, less religious place, a country which understood that "marriages do not always work, that women should make their own decisions, and that families come in many different, wonderful forms, including those headed by a grandparent, lone parent or same-sex parents, or parents who are divorced".As Ireland's first gay head of government, Varadkar seemed to embody the social transformation he was describing.

The taoiseach also called for a "new relationship between church and state", urging the Pope to address the "history of sorrow and shame" laid bare by the abuse of vulnerable children.Hours later, Francis met eight survivors of clerical abuse for 90 minutes at the Vatican embassy in Dublin.