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Mildenheath’s main church was a former abbey, an enormous twelfth-century stone building which stood in its own beautiful grounds, barely a stone’s throw from the crossroads in the town centre but at the same time seeming a million miles away from it. It seemed completely oblivious to the urban sprawl which had sprung up around it, instead choosing to stand ignorantly amongst it, with just enough open space of its own to keep the modern day at arm’s length.
The church had its own sombre history, being the place where royal divorces and the funerals of late medieval noblemen had occurred as well as having served as a safe house for royals during the English Civil War. Now, though, it was the site of the memorial service for PC Luke Baxter.
What struck Wendy the hardest was that life a
