Susan Hill fury at £100m slave fund

THE Woman In Black author Susan Hill, grand dame of ghost stories, is horrified the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has given his blessing to a £100 million Church of England fund ‘to address wrongs of slavery’.

He’s done so at a time of financial crisis for parishes. Vicars, she says, ‘will all be ashamed of our history regarding slavery, though it was none of their faults’.

She adds: ‘As they minister to several parishes with dwindling resources, they must be rueful the Archbishop has just “found” £100 million to compensate for slavery generations ago. I’m not rueful, I’m bloody furious.’