Anglican Communion News Service - Digest News

St Bride's church on Fleet Street has allocated beds to cash-strapped journalists from Togo, Croatia and Romania

Journalists from the world's poorest countries are to be offered free accommodation during the London Olympics in spare rooms provided by members of the congregation of St Bride's church on Fleet Street.

In an act of journalistic solidarity and to avoid the need for reporters to sleep on the floor in the press centre, members of the media who are accredited to cover the Games but cannot afford a hotel room are being matched with supporters of the church that styles itself the spiritual home of journalism.

The full article from the Guardian by Roger Booth is available here