Vicars in Greater Manchester are to be coached on how to spot bogus marriages.
The UK Border Agency is issuing guidance to clergy across the north west after a spate of fake weddings were exposed during immigration raids.
In recent months, immigration teams have swooped on a number of suspected sham ceremonies in local register offices following tip-offs that brides and grooms did not even speak the same language.
So it might be a phoney mariage if two ethnicities show up, but not if the same gender, right? How if two guys with different languages appear; call immigration then?