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The Portsmouth News ran with the following headline that evening:
MIRACLE AT ST WINIFREDE’S
Beheaded nun back from the dead and with head
The article was short and sensationally written. Short on detail, because the police were revealing nothing. All of the information had come from the mother superior who claimed also that there was now a holy spring in the school assembly hall, promising that, "After the bluebottles had scarpered" she would be opening it as a site of pilgrimage, of homage for the people. “God has spoken,” the mother had said.
The papers had not learned about the ballet dancing as yet. Mother hoped to stop that load of old shite as soon as possible. She had though mentioned it to Father Mike, Priest in charge of nuns, or at least he had said he was, when he te
