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He said the decline of stores like Debenhams provided an opportunity to support smaller local businesses.

“I will never forget him holding me on that balcony,” she said as a defense lawyer challenged the date she provided with evidence of Combs’s being elsewhere at a hotel across the country.

The 49-year-old, who received a number of supportive character references during the case, provided a pre-prepared statement in which he claimed to be a "trusted interlocutor" in community relations and the peace process.

"Recording other patients inadvertently and without their permission risks breaching patient confidentiality – the information and treatment provided to other patients on NHS premises should never be recorded, let alone posted to social media," she added.

The Church said the case was reviewed by its national child protection lead in 2003, but admitted the pastoral care initially provided "fell short of today's standards".