The grueling tennis season leaves little time for rest and although the grand slams are behind them, the battle for rankings supremacy can be won or lost in a series of money-spinning tournaments.

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But places like Southwark have little time to rest on their laurels: they are girding themselves for yet another of the Church of England's rancorous internal battles, this time over money, not sex.

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For the first time in history, the rest of the world turned to watch this distant little country.

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