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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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A flesh and blood matter for the Church of England

A laywomen picks up the bread during a holy communion rite.
The Church of England has ruled out considering the dietary intolerance of worshippers. Photograph: Patrícia de Melo Moreira/AFP/Getty Images

Re your article (Church of England refuses call for gluten-free wafers and non-alcoholic wine, 9 February), if you can believe wheat and alcohol are flesh and blood, I’m sure you could cope with an oatcake and a slug of grape juice being bread and wine.
Henry Malt
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire

• The government seems to dub everyone who opposes a development for whatever reason a nimby (More than 100,000 homes in England could be built in highest-risk flood zones, 8 February). Should we now refer to Starmer, Reeves, Rayner and housebuilders as badees – Build Anywhere Despite the Environmental Effects?
Tim Edmundson
London

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