Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Church shuts after junkies make life hell

- BY TOM BRYANT Head of Showbiz

KEITH Flint smiles broadly as he poses in the sunshine with a young friend and a dog for a photo showing the softer side of the tragic rave hellraiser.

The picture of the Prodigy star was tweeted by TV cook Rosemary Shrager, 68, after his suspected suicide at the age of 49.

She said: “Very sad to hear of the death of Keith Flint. I only saw him last week. My thoughts and prays go out to his family. A true legend and an icon.”

Keith was found dead at his Essex home on Monday. A bunch of purple flowers yesterday lay by the gate to the £1.9million Grade

Ii-listed house.

Prodigy co-manager

John Fairs said he and the band members, Liam

Howlett and Maxim, were “devas- A CHURCH which stayed open during the Blitz has been forced by drug users to close its doors.

Heroin addicts have been shooting-up on the pews and even in the confession­al boxes at St Anthony’s in Liverpool.

In one incident two men burst into the city centre church during 3pm mass, having a punch-up.

Archivist and organist Michael O’neill said: “It’s very scary, they’re utterly without inhibition.”

The Catholic church – which has always been open to visitors since it was built on the site in 1833 – will now open only for services or on request.

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