30 October 2007: A Moving Service

Church services can be moving, but churches themselves tend to stay put; but not so in Germany.

The 300 residents of one small German village, forced to move out of their homes to allow coal to be extracted from beneath, did not want to lose their 700-year-old village church. So they took it with them.

The church, complete with bells and altar, was loaded onto a truck and set off on the 7 mile trek to its new home. The 1,000-tonne load is costing the mining firm more than 2 million pounds to move.