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Chaplain settles LGBT sermon unfair dismissal case

by Isaac Ashe, BBC A chaplain who used a sermon to tell pupils they did not have to believe in "LGBT stuff" has reached a legal agreement with the school that dismissed him. Rev Bernard Randall was sacked by Trent College in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, in 2019, two months after the sermon.

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by Isaac Ashe, BBC A chaplain who used a sermon to tell pupils they did not have to believe in "LGBT stuff" has reached a legal agreement with the school that dismissed him.

Rev Bernard Randall was sacked by Trent College in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, in 2019, two months after the sermon.

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by Isaac Ashe, BBC A chaplain who used a sermon to tell pupils they did not have to believe in "LGBT stuff" has reached a legal agreement with the school that dismissed him. Rev Bernard Randall was sacked by Trent College in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, in 2019, two months after the sermon.

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