A special evensong in Norwich Cathedral was led by the Dean of the Cathedral the Very Rev Jane Hedges as one of her final duties ahead of her retirement.
The Canon Precentor the Rev Aidan Platten gave a very thoughtful sermon remembering the 97 and the part they played in the war effort and praised the work of all those involved in bringing their story to a wider public.
"Little did the 99 think at this point 82 years ago that within a month they would be lined up against a wall and massacred in what was a war crime," he said.
Four hundred attended the special Le Paradis memorial evensong which celebrated the new memorial to those who lost their lives and which is situated in the Cathedral Close.
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By and large I don't have a great deal of time for Piers Morgan but I did like what he had to say about Putin on BBC television yesterday morning.
He basically said that there is a lot of rhetoric coming from Europe without a lot of action against a genocidal monster who is deliberately bombing hospitals and killing children. "We don't want to start World War Three but we appear to be happy to sit back whilst this genocidal monster raises a country to the ground," was roughly what he said.
The news bulletin went on to discuss whether Russia was winning the war or not. It sounded like they were discussing a football match. All we wanted was an announcement that the war had gone to extra-time and penalties.
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I think I've spoken before about the absolute stupidity of some so called news stories. Stories that are built up out of all proportion and where the interviewer and the interviewee struggle to keep things going.
There was a perfect example of this a couple of days ago on national television. Are you ready for this? I feel I need a drum roll here. You might want to sit down with a cup of coffee and prepare yourself for this one.
A pigeon got into the snooker world championships in Sheffield. Yes a pigeon. Not a man eating Lion or a Boa Constrictor but a pigeon. And what did this pigeon do I hear you ask? Well it waddled along the wood surround of the snooker table and then was ushered out of the building through the players' entrance.
All well and good. A little bit funny for those who were there but national news!!! Well the BBC certainly thought so. They spent 10 minutes telling us about it and interviewing snooker commentator and former professional John Virgo who seemed rather bored by the whole thing.
"So it was an actual pigeon John."
"Yes"
"And it got onto the playing area."
"Yes"
"And it actually walked along the playing area John."
"Well yes."
"And what happened next John?"
"Well it went out through the players' entrance."
"And it wasn't hurt"
"No it wasn't hurt."
That's the kind of nonsense that went on (although not exactly in those words). But then it got worse as Breakfast TV tried to continue the whole thing.
"I don't suppose it left anything on the table John."
"Well no it didn't."
At this point Naga Munchetty got really excited.
"What would have happened if it had pooped on the surface John?"
"Well I suppose they would have had to have found a cloth and some cleaning fluid. But I want to stress the bird wasn't harmed."
"Well that's certainly a relief John."
And that was that. So here is the purport of that national story. A common or garden pigeon (often known as a rat of the air) got into the Crucible Theatre, landed on a snooker table whilst a match was taken place, walked along the table's surround and then got out through the players' entrance. We were all really relieved to hear that the pigeon was unharmed by this traumatic event.
And that is the quality of some of the news of today folks.
FOOTNOTE - It is estimated that there are 18 million pigeons in the UK. That's pretty much one for every four humans.