During the last month we have at last managed to find a company to exclude the doves from the tower and to clean it out! The bell chamber and the room below have both been cleaned and disinfected so hopefully we will not get any further problems. The final stage of the repairs to the roof and spire will hopefully now go ahead in the near future. This entails the removal of various plants that are growing between the masonry of the turret above the stairs to the tower. There’s several areas where the pointing needs repair. Unfortunately it will not be able to say exactly what needs doing until we have scaffolding in place.