Opera star Yuri Sabatini opens first event at village’s new Heart Of Headcorn centre

Italian opera singer Yuri Sabatini serenaded a packed audience of around 100 people in the pews of what had once been Headcorn’s Methodist Church.

The building had been saved from the threat of conversion to housing by the determination of villagers who raised funds to buy it from the church authorities for use as a community centre.