Shirley, You Can't Be Serious

Telegraph:

The 16-strong Collegium Vocale has spent weeks practising Handel's Messiah for the festive performance at tiny St Stephen Church near Wimborne in Dorset.

But organisers have cancelled the event after deciding that the quaint countryside church could be "dangerous" on a winter's night.

Although the 100-year-old building has electric lighting they feared that a member of the audience could injure themselves if there was a power cut.