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| Posted By: Jerome Taylor | | Wednesday September 8th, 2010 |
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With its imposing red brick walls, gently sloping grounds and long wooden knave, the church of St Peter and St Paul in St Leonards-on-Sea is as pretty place as any to get hitched.
Boasting a congregation of just 12 regular churchgoers, the small parish in East Sussex would have considered itself lucky to host more than three weddings a year. Yet between July 2005 and September last year, 383 couples walked up the aisle to trade rings in a flurry of local passion that, at one point, saw the resident vicar hosting a wedding daily.
What was it about St Peter's that made it such a romantic place? Was it the picturesque setting or something in the water? Sadly it was neither. The Victorian building was the epicentre of what police have described as the largest organised marriage scam ever uncovered in Britain. (CONT.) |
| | | Source: The Independent |
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