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'We have often seen each other,' said Little Dorrit, recognising the sexton, or the beadle, or the verger, or whatever he was, 'when I have been at church here.'

And a great big- bearded man, whom Tom took for a master, began calling over the names, while the great joints were being rapidly carved on the third table in the corner by the old verger and the housekeeper.

Yet when they reached the church and were about to slip aside into their usual seats, a little beyond the font, where they could see the red-furred tails of the bellropes waggle and twist at ringing time, they were swept forward irresistibly, a Cloke on either flank (and yet they had not walked with the Clokes), upon the ever-retiring bosom of a black-gowned verger, who ushered them into a room of a pew at the head of the left aisle, under the pulpit.

CONVICTED OF SEX OFFENCES Colin James Adams was employed as a verger at St Nicholas's Cathedral

Father John Ward, who once worked at Llandaff and at a parish in Bridgend, was called to give evidence at Cardiff Crown Court where a cathedral verger denies sex charges.

A FORMER head verger of Llandaff Cathedral yesterday told a jury he emphatically denied sexually assaulting a schoolboy chorister two decades ago.

DEDICATED church verger Norman Shadlock is celebrating his 78th birthday by getting in tune for a Songs of Praise service.

Joanne Verger, D-Coos Bay, both filed papers to run for re-election in next May's primaries and, if they are nominated, in the November 2008 general election.