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       This years first Christmas shop opens - in a heatwave !
   DIR By: UKWF Admin
       Date: July 19, 2013, 9:40 am
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       Truro Cathedral opens Christmas shop during heatwave
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       The shop, which will sell nativity sets, advent calendars and
       decorations, will be open until Christmas
       Climbing temperatures, which triggered a "level three" heatwave
       warning in the South West, have not put off the opening of a new
       Christmas shop.
       The shop in Truro, Cornwall, will sell nativity sets,
       decorations and advent calendars.
       Leased by Truro Cathedral, it will be opened later by its dean,
       the Very Reverend Roger Bush.
       He admitted it seemed "a bit odd" to have a shop bedecked with
       Christmas items in the middle of July.
       The cathedral denied it was exploiting the commercialisation of
       Christmas
       "We've had a successful Christmas shop within the cathedral for
       many years and we've found, oddly enough, that during the summer
       months when we get more visitors, people want to buy good
       quality Christmas products," he said.
       "I know it looks a bit odd, culturally, to have Christmas things
       in the middle of perhaps the hottest time we've had for many
       years, but we do believe there is a demand for this."
       The dean said opening a High Street shop did not mean the church
       was exploiting the commercialisation of Christmas.
       "I don't think there's anything wrong in being commercial, but
       we've got to be very careful how we get our message across," he
       said.
       "If there's a genuine demand for things and we can meet that
       demand, it's absolutely fine."
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