A RYEDALE church is to host a special service on Friday.

St Leonard & St Mary’s RC Church, in Malton, will be the venue for Malton’s Civic Service.

The night begins at 6.30pm when the preacher will be the former Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Reverend James Jones KBE.

In 2009 he was appointed by the Home Secretary to chair the Hillsborough Independent Panel examining all the documentation concerning the death of 96 Liverpool football fans at the 1989 FA Cup Semi Final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

This ultimately led to the quashing of verdicts in the original inquests and fans being exonerated of any blame.