[ChronicleLive] Girl Guides from the North [of England] have been warned they risk being expelled from the movement after refusing to drop 'God' from their traditional promise.

The leader of a church-based troop has been told she risks being axed from the organisation after defying a bid to to replace its traditional pledge.

Glynis Mackie, 55, who has been leading the 37th Newcastle Guide Unit at Jesmond Parish Church for more than 25 years, received a letter on Friday after the unit refused to adopt a new oath.

The Guiding Promise was altered so that members now swear "to be true to myself and develop my beliefs" rather than the original "to love my God". Mrs Mackie and the other leaders of the group resisted the change, which she calls a "fridge magnet promise that doesn’t really mean anything".

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