Under holy orders - and they're off!

The Cornish Vicar who won the Tresco Marathon in 2003 has hit the headlines again ? in a cross-country dash to retrieve a couple’s forgotten rings minutes before their wedding.

Rev Chris McQuillen-Wright, 35, sprinted three quarters of a mile across fields to get the rings from the bride mother’s house after the chief bridesmaid realised she had forgotten them.

The speedy curate covered the distance in just 4 minutes -then beat bride Lucy Ridd’s horse-drawn carriage back to St Columb Minor church in Newquay before marrying her to Chris Smith.

Delighted Smith told The Cornishman newspaper: “When we told him what had happened - he just said ‘No problem - leave it to me’. The next thing I knew he was off like a greyhound up a track - dog collar and all. A few minutes later and zoom -he was back with the rings.

“He got a round of applause from the congregation, held up his hand in acknowledgement, then married us. He’d barely broken a sweat. What a guy. That’s what I call a service.”