A national roadshow aimed at inspiring people with ways of celebrating the new millennium comes to Bradford on Monday.

National and local speakers will be there to fill the minds of local groups with ideas of what they could do to mark the event.

Now a last minute reminder is going out for anyone interested to go along and be involved in the celebrations.

The Millennium Roadshow, sponsored by Churches Together in England, will stop off at Bradford Cathedral for the seminar, which starts on Monday at 7.30pm.

Millennium Officer for Bradford Diocese Gillian Shepherd said it was an evening local people cannot afford to miss.

She said: "The roadshow presentation has been enthusiastically received wherever it has travelled throughout the country, and it should prove invaluable in giving people a host of good ideas for making millennium celebrations more meaningful."

It will be followed on Tuesday morning by a millennium breakfast for business people throughout the district.

The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Tony Cairns, and the Lady Mayoress, his wife Jean, will be joining more than 70 invited guests at 7.30am.

Mrs Shepherd said: "We hope that businesses will, as a result of the presentation, appreciate that their role in helping to mark the millennium is as important as the church leader and individual."

National roadshow presenter the Reverend Anne Hibbert said: "As we approach the year 2,000 we, as the church, need to show that the Christian faith is still relevant two thousand years on.

"The message of the show is that the churches have a task - to forge a link between the year 2,000, the name of Jesus Christ and the possibility of personal meaning and public hope."

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