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146 queen victoria street london united kingdom (uk) • anne archer • celebrity centre • david miscavige • janet kenyon laveau • ken stewart • kevin hurley • london • membership • narconon (aka scientology drug rehab) • oxford capacity analysis (aka, "free scientology personality test" aka "u-test" aka "pape test") • police • protest, picket • psychiatry: an industry of death • purification rundown ("purif") • real estate • saint hill manor @ east grinstead (uk) • sandra laville • tax matter • the guardian (uk) • the independent (uk) • tom cruise • uk charity commission • united kingdom (uk) • volunteer ministers
Reference materials 146 Queen Victoria Street London United Kingdom (UK)Duckworth's Mill @ Old Chester Road Trafford Greater Manchester United Kingdom (UK)Royal Fleet Hotel @ 12 Morice Square // Plymouth // South West England // United Kingdom (UK)123 Moor Green Lane Birmingham West Midlands United Kingdom (UK)
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Dec 10, 2006
Scientologists get £270,000 subsidy — The Telegraph (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Adam Lusher
Source: The Telegraph (UK)
The controversial Church of Scientology has been granted a subsidy of more than £270,000 a year in public money, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal. Scientology's lawyers used European rulings and Government equality regulations to force the City of London corporation to grant an 80 per cent rates discount for its new centre near St Paul's Cathedral. The "church", it is believed, is now pressing to pay nothing at all. The corporation confirmed that this discount was on the basis that Scientology ...
Dec 9, 2006
Scientology — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Oliver Burkeman
Source: The Guardian (UK)
I'd be lying if I said I entered the Scientologists' sparkling new Life Improvement Centre in London with an open mind. It's not that I have anything against people who believe humanity's troubles began when an intergalactic ruler landed on earth 75 million years ago, imprisoning dead souls in a volcano, causing woes that can only be relieved with the expensive assistance of the Church of Scientology, it's just that - well, OK, that stuff doesn't help. But I wanted to ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Dec 1, 2006
How many members do they really have? — Church Times (UK)
Nov 23, 2006
Scientologists' gifts to police provoke rethink — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Sandra Laville
Source: The Guardian (UK)
An internal review of the hospitality policy of City of London police was ordered yesterday after revelations that officers had been accepting invitations, dinners and gifts from the Church of Scientology worth thousands of pounds. Details of how the religious movement appeared to be cultivating officers in the force were revealed in a freedom of information inquiry made by the Guardian. Officers ranging from constables to a chief superintendent received free gifts such as invitations to a premiere of Mission Impossible ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 22, 2006
Gala dinners, jive bands and Tom Cruise: how the Scientologists woo City police — The Guardian (UK)
Nov 21, 2006
Police officers accepted gifts from Church of Scientology — Daily Mail (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Ben Taylor
Source: Daily Mail (UK)
Dozens of police officers have accepted film premiere tickets, banquet invitations and the use of a jazz band from the controversial Church of Scientology, it has emerged. The wealthy religious movement has spent thousands of pounds cultivating contacts in the City of London police. Officers have received sought-after free invitations to film premieres and £500-a-head charity dinners where the guest of honour is Hollywood superstar and renowned Scientologist, Tom Cruise. They have even been provided with the free use of a ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 28, 2006
Plasticine and teddy bears at the new UK base of L Ron Hubbard // Questions raise suspicions after Guardian penetrates movement's City building — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Paul Lewis
Source: The Guardian (UK)
The building which opened a week ago in the City of London in a sea of confetti could have been any new five-star hotel or corporate headquarters. On its first day open, men and women in matching uniforms and automatic smiles darted across marble floors, the smell of fresh paint in the air. The grandiose premises now belonging to the Church of Scientology is a multimillion pound launchpad for the group's expansion in the UK. While Scientologists describe their "applied religion" ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 24, 2006
Police criticised over Scientology — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Sandra Laville
Source: The Guardian (UK)
A cult information group has complained to a senior police officer about comments he made at the opening of the £24m Church of Scientology centre in London. It also emerged yesterday that four City of London police officers attended a lavish reception at the headquarters of the Scientology movement in East Grinstead on Saturday night. The officers, who have not been named, registered their attendance according to police rules on hospitality, according to a police spokeswoman. Chris Peeler, of the Family ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 23, 2006
Devotees mix with doubters at Scientology ceremony — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Terry Kirby
Source: The Independent (UK)
Tom Cruise was, unfortunately, absent, along with his partner and biggest recruit, Katie Holmes; and John Travolta, that other high-profile Hollywood convert to the Church of Scientology, was away filming. So those who turned up in rain yesterday for the opening of its imposing new premises in London had to make do with a pipe band and the solid figure of Chief Superintendent Kevin Hurley, local divisional commander of the City of London Police. There cannot have been many such occasions ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 23, 2006
Let it rain: Scientology glitterati join followers to launch £24m centre in heart of the City — The Guardian (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Sandra Laville
Source: The Guardian (UK)
The rain bounced off a podium fit for an Oscar ceremony, soaking the lavish red carpet, and pouring down the collars of celebrants sporting incongruous California tans and sunglasses. And still they smiled. Each wore a lapel badge marking them out as followers of one of the most controversial and fastest growing "religious" movements in the world, the Church of Scientology. For two hours yesterday Hollywood glitz supplanted British mundanity on the streets of London as the most senior figures within ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Oct 23, 2006
Tom's aliens target City's 'planetary rulers' — Evening Standard (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): David Cohen
Source: Evening Standard (UK)
DEREK perches on his seat among the VIPs, eyes blazing rapturously. "Do you have any idea how huge this is for Scientology?" he says, reading the sign over the garlanded new £ 40million headquarters of the "church of Scientology London" in the heart of the Square Mile. "For how long have we dreamed of this! It's like the tipping point. With this base, we'll be recruiting the people who control the planet!" Behind him, beaming ecstatically despite the driving rain, an ...
Oct 22, 2006
Scientology sets up house in the City // Hollywood's religion of choice opens multi-million pound centre in London — The Observer (London, UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Jamie Doward
Source: The Observer (London, UK)
'So what is it then, Scientology?' asks a contractor delivering supplies to builders who were putting the finishing touches yesterday to Number 146, Queen Victoria Street, one of the City of London's most exclusive addresses. 'I mean,' continues the contractor , 'I've heard a lot about it. Is it based on science? Who's the big man in charge?' Such questions are likely to be asked more often from today when the controversial Church of Scientology opens its biggest UK centre in ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Jul 2, 2006
Mind Games: Scientology vs. Psychiatry — BBC Radio
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Type: Radio
Source: BBC Radio
Reporter Elodie Harper goes undercover to reveal the tactics used by Scientology followers in the immediate aftermath of traumatic events.
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 5, 2006
Alarm over drug treatment group — The Scotsman (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Andrew Picken
Source: The Scotsman (UK)
COUNSELLING experts have issued a warning about a drug and alcohol treatment group operating in the Capital, linked to the controversial Church of Scientology. The group, called Narconon Scotland, is targeting the city's drug and alcohol addicts to join its rehabilitation programme. Leaflets have been put through doors in Leith and Muirhouse urging addicts or their families to get in touch. The leaflets contain no references to the quasi-religious group despite using the principles of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard to ...
May 5, 2006
Drug treatment group warning — Edinburgh Evening News
Type: Press
Source: Edinburgh Evening News
COUNSELLING experts have warned about a drug and alcohol treatment group operating in the Capital, linked to the controversial Church of Scientology. Narconon Scotland has leafleted homes in the city, but the leaflets do not mention the quasi-religious group, despite using the principles of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard to treat addicts. Tom Wood, chairman of the Edinburgh Drug and Alcohol Action Team, said: "We know of this group, but we would only ever encourage people to attend credible counselling groups." ...
Apr 18, 2006
The secrets of Scientology — The Independent (UK)
Type: Press
Author(s): Sara Lawrence
Source: The Independent (UK)
Tom Cruise says Katie Holmes is now a fully-fledged follower of L Ron Hubbard. So what is it about the sci-fi writer's 'religion' that exerts such a hold? Sara Lawrence goes undercover to find out Sitting on a red velvet chair in the middle of a majestic, oak-panelled hall in East Grinstead, I have rarely felt more fearful for my sanity. On the wall in front of me, a creepy, larger-than-life-sized portrait of an old man seems to be staring straight ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
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