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Nov 13, 2009
MP Soames fights use of grandfather in Scientology recruitment drive — East Grinstead Observer
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
LEGAL action is threatened by the family of Sir Winston Churchill in a bid to stop Scientologists using the famous wartime leader's picture and words in their recruitment drive. Town MP Nicholas Soames told the Courier and Observer: "Organisation like the BNP and the Scientologists have no right whatsoever to use my grandfather as a means to solicit and elicit support. "I have written to them asking them to desist from using his image immediately. Unless I get a satisfactory reply, ...
Oct 20, 2009
Gala concert raises thousands for local charities — East Grinstead Observer
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
HOLLYWOOD actress Anne Archer presented cheques totalling £50,000 to eight charities at a Saint Hill gala concert on Sunday. The Academy Award nominated star hosted the event, now in its 12th year, on behalf of the L Ron Hubbard Foundation and the Church of Scientology. The concert was headlined by international jazz icon, Chick Corea and covered a wide spectrum of music. Also on stage were Mark Isham, award winning composer; Alexander Markov, virtuoso solo violinist; David Pomeranz songwriter and recording ...
Sep 26, 2009
Saint Hill entertainment licence will be considered again — East Grinstead Observer
Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
RESIDENTS objecting to an entertainment licence for Saint Hill Manor during a consultation period were shocked to discover it had already been granted. Saint Hill Green homeowners were told Mid Sussex District Council had already given permission for up to 10 late night events a year to be held at the Church of Scientology's East Grinstead base, despite public notices saying the consultation was still open. "A neighbour gave me a copy of the public notice which said you had until ...
Jul 16, 1995
Scientology film team targeted by vandals — East Grinstead Observer
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Aug 3, 1994
Press watchdog backs Observer // Sex pervert was a cult teacher — East Grinstead Observer
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Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
BRITAIN'S newspaper industry watchdog, The Press Complaints Commission has dismissed a complaint by the Scientology movement against the East Grinstead Observer. The cult tried to stop us telling our huge following of readers that an evil sex pervert who preyed on schoolboys at the cult-backed Greenfields school was a Scientology teacher. The cult accused us of inaccurate and misleading reporting following a court case earlier this year, when cultist Mark Kent was jailed for five years for serious sex offences. The ...
Jun 29, 1994
'Evil cult stole my brother!' // Scientologists accused of wrecking family life — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
A GRIEF-stricken man has accused East Grinstead's sinister Scientology cult of stealing his brother from his family. Heartbroken John Phelan says his brother Tony is now a virtual prisoner of the organisation, slammed by a British judge as "corrupt immoral brainwashers." This week officials at the cult's European HQ Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, refused to discuss the case with the Observer. Now the anguished Phelan family have threatened to step up their campaign against the Church of Scientology, unless Tony ...
Apr 6, 1994
Cult man's paltry pocket money claim — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
A SOLICITOR defending a member of the cult Church of Scientology told Mid Sussex Magistrates his client received only £25 a week "pocket money". Russell Owen, 29, of Stonelands, West Hoathly, admitted driving charges of having no insurance and no test certificate, after being stopped by police in September last year. Jim Hinchliffe, defending, said Owen had been insured and had his car tested, but he could not now trace a friend of his who had the documents, and so must ...
Mar 23, 1994
Cult picket man's home — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
FOLLOWERS of the cult Church of Scientology have been picketing the house of a former member, who claims the church practices "mind control". Scientologists bearing placards accusing John [should be Jon] Atack of breaking up families and owing the cult money, have demonstrated outside his Cranston Road home six times. "They came on Saturday and the police told them that if they returned they would be arrested," Mr Atack told the Observer. Mr Atack left the cult in 1983, after being ...
Mar 2, 1994
Cult group hit by television ban / 'Advertising is unacceptable' — East Grinstead Observer
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Mar 2, 1994
Duo vow to expose 'evil cult' / High court gives green light — East Grinstead Observer
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Jan 26, 1994
Evil sex pervert sent to prison // Scientology teacher molested schoolboys — East Grinstead Observer
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Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
A pervert teacher at the Scientologists Greenfield School in Forest Row who sexually assaulted young boys has been jailed for five years. Mark Kent, 32, of Lewes Road, Forest Row, molested six teenage schoolboys over a period of seven years and took filthy videos of himself in sex acts with his young victims. Hove Crown Court heard Kent was found to have a videotape shooting scenes from the cult school's fete, interspersed with sickening footage of himself and young boys, and ...
Jan 1, 1993
A-Z of beliefs [exact date unknown] — East Grinstead Observer
Jan 1, 1993
And God created East Grinstead [exact date unknown] — East Grinstead Observer
Nov 24, 1988
Spanish police swoop on cult — East Grinstead Observer
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Sep 10, 1987
Vicar attacks 'very evil' cult — East Grinstead Observer
Apr 26, 1984
Five year ban for defendant — East Grinstead Observer
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Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
THE MAN accused of entering Scientology European headquarters in Denmark and removing valuable documents has been banned from visiting the country for five years and given a three month suspended prison sentence. Robin Scott, of Aberdeen, was also jailed for a month but was released following the court case because of the amount of time he had spent in custody. Scott, who pleaded guilty to entering the premises without authority and removing material regarded as highly confidential by the sect, told ...
Apr 19, 1984
£300 Reward for sect informants — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
TWO East Grinstead residents are to receive £300 each for their part in the unmasking of a theft of scriptures from Scientology European Headquarters in Denmark The two, who have not been named, are to share a reward offered by the East Grinstead-based sect some weeks ago when evidence of the thefts both locally and in Denmark first came to light The announcement follows the arrest of Mr Robin Scott, of Aberdeen, at Copenhagen in Denmark, where he is currently awaiting ...
Apr 5, 1984
Protest march at sect HQ — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
FORTY-FIVE members of a splinter group of Scientologists demonstrated outside the entrance of Saint Hill UK headquarters on Sunday, in protest at the cost of the sect's courses. The group demanded reforms within the workings of the church, including a refusal to interfere in the sexual, marital and family affairs of its members. This was a reference to the scientology practice of "disconnection" — cutting off communication with relatives if there is a disagreement over their beliefs. Mr Eric Ballard, a ...
Oct 18, 1969
[Placeholder for a news article presumably from East Grinstead Observer, cited in "Scandal of Scientology", Chapter 10, note 14] — East Grinstead Observer
Aug 1, 1968
Government curb the growth of Scientology // Council call special meeting — East Grinstead Observer
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Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
East Grinstead Urban Council were due to hold a special meeting last night (Wednesday) to discuss the statement made in the House of Commons by the Minister of Health, Mr. Kenneth Robinson, of government plans to curb the growth of Scientology, which has its world headquarters at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead. In a written reply to Mr. Geoffrey Johnson Smith, East Grinstead's M.P., the Minister said the Government had become increasingly concerned at the spread of Scientology in the United ...
Jul 31, 1968
Scientologists stopped at airport — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
IMMIGRATION officers at Heathrow Airport stopped six Americans who said they had come to study scientology, and ordered them to be sent home again. The Americans, a woman with two children, two other men and a young woman, were stopped as they were passing through the controls. They told Immigration Officials that they had come to attend a School of Scientology at East Grinstead. Later a Home Office spokesman said the party was refused entry because the six were coming to ...
Jul 25, 1968
Public inquiry made history // Scientology development appeal heard — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
THE PUBLIC INQUIRY INTO THE PLANNING APPEAL BY SClENTOLOGISTS CONCLUDED AT EAST GRINSTEAD ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON AFTER LASTING THREE-AND-A-HALF DAYS — THE LONGEST INQUIRY EVER TO BE HELD IN THE TOWN. The appeal by the Church of Scientology, California, was into the refusal by East Grinstead Urban Council to allow development extending to 23,500 square feet at the Scientology headquarters at Saint Hill Manor on the outskirts of the town. The Urban Council had booked East Grinstead Parish Hall for the ...
Jul 25, 1968
Talking points... // We are growing tired of their antics — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
WHEN we want the Scientologists to run East Grinstead we will let them know . . . They seem blissfully Ignorant of the fact that the residents of the town are growing a little tired of their antics such at issuing a list of places which they have decided to put out of bounds to their members. They include cafes, shops, public houses, and even a professional man, a solicitor, is named. Just who do the Scientologists think they are to ...
Jul 18, 1968
Estate agent hits back at the Scientologists — East Grinstead Observer
Jul 18, 1968
Many objectors to Saint Hill development / Appeals by Scientologists — East Grinstead Observer
Jul 18, 1968
Regarded after theft as 'a suppressive person' — East Grinstead Observer
Jul 11, 1968
Scientologist youths told to leave the country — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
TWO long-haired Swedish youths who for the past month had been studying at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, the headquarters of the Scientology Foundation, appeared before a special East Grinstead Court on Wednesday last week. Mats Bengtson (18) and Yngue Mokvist (22), both of no fixed address, pleaded guilty to being unlawfully in the U.K. contrary to the Aliens Order of 1953. They were granted an absolute discharge and bound over in the sum of £5 each, on their own recognisance, ...
Jul 11, 1968
Scientologists place 22 businesses out of bound — East Grinstead Observer
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Source: East Grinstead Observer
TWENTY-TWO businesses have been put 'Out of Bounds' to Scientologists by their Saint Hill headquarters at East Grinstead. A letter to the members headed 'Executive Directive,' lists the businesses as 'out of bounds,' and says: 'The shops have indicated that they do not wish Scientology to expand in East Grinstead, and we are, therefore, relieving them of the painful experience of taking our money.' The Press officer at Saint Hill, Mr. H. Dunston, said that the list had come about following ...
Jun 13, 1968
Scientology is slammed in court as 'evil cult' — East Grinstead Observer
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Author(s): Debbie Winsor
Source: East Grinstead Observer
A former Scientologist who left the movement 'in disgust,' described it at East Grinstead court on Monday as an 'evil cult.' Maurice William Johnson of South Shields County Durham, told the court that since he resigned from the movement in June 1966, he had been persecuted by the Scientology organization and had received over 100 letters of abuse from Scientologists. A man who wrote one of the letters to Mr. Johnson while he was a member of the Scientology movement himself ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 23, 1968
Why council had to send 500 letters — East Grinstead Observer
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Type: Press
Source: East Grinstead Observer
EAST GRINSTEAD Urban Council Planning Committee heard that well over 500 letters had had to be sent out to say that the inquiry into the appeal by the Church of Scientology, East Grinstead, against the Council's refusal to allow large-scale development at Saint Hill, had been postponed. The inquiry has been postponed by the Ministry because of the indisposition of Mr. Howard Sharp, who is representing the appellants. The new date for the inquiry is July 16. Labour councillor Mrs. C. ...
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