Bishop silenced by computer virus

THE Bishop of Manchester has been forced to take a vow of email silence after his computer was crippled by a virus.

The Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch has been unable to send or receive messages for nearly 10 days, it has emerged.

And a `significant' number of the 6,000 emails he thought he had sent during the past 10 months probably never found their mark, a Church of England spokesman admitted.

Computer experts are now frantically trying to restore his computer, which was hit by the virus on March 3.

The Bishops of Bolton and Middleton have also been affected, along with the Diocese of Manchester's central offices and its Archdeacons. The virus has prevented any sending or receiving of emails, and messages to the church website have been blocked.

Technicians working for the CoE discovered the virus and while trying to remove it found it had severely corrupted their systems.

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