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It quotes the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, who is not happy about the forthcoming Sexual Orientation Discrimination Regulations, which will guarantee equality in the provision of goods and services for all sexual orientations. In protest, he says: "We will shut down the youth clubs and welfare projects rather than obey these laws." Didn't someone once say: "Anyone who does not receive one of these little ones does not receive me?" Must be imagining it.

The Hackney Gazette told its readers about 25-year-old millionaire Ben Way, who pretended to be a youth worker at the London borough's Pedro Club as part of a reality TV programme aired last week. Way gave the club 20,000, saying: "What shocked me most was the anger in some of these young people and how the club helped them with that." Are we about to witness a trend of millionaires disguising themselves as youth workers? It might be one way to solve the current youth work recruitment problem.Meanwhile, if you are blessed with a mysterious new youth worker who doesn't seem to know what they're doing, be nice to them - you could get an influx of cash.