WORKERS on Chorley's new multi-million pound Mormon temple haven't got a prayer if the gaffer hears them swearing.

For they'll be through the gates before they can say hallelujah!

On site they're not allowed to:

Smoke.

Drink.

Use blasphemous language.

Come out with profane acts or behaviour.

Display lewd calendars, magazines, photographs, or newspaper cuttings

Use obscenities.

Have radios on.

But construction company Laing North West, which is building the temple for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints just off the M61 junction at Hartwood Green, revealed that the stringent instructions are laid-down company rules for all of its construction sites - not just because it is a church.

Some 350 workers, such as bricklayers, joiners, plasterers, stonemasons, labourers and the likes, work on site, around 120 for Laing North West, the others contractors.

But everyone must obey the rules, as Robert Pugh, marketing manager for Laing North West, explained.

"On all our sites we expect sensible and proper behaviour. We do not allow people to behave in a way which would show a bad reflection of the company wherever they are working."

Workers are shown the written rules which come with a warning - "Persons found contravening the above will be removed from site."

Mr Pugh added: "We prefer all our men to behave with a sense of decorum. Personally I don't think it is draconian. Our customers expect us to behave properly."

The development - known as the Preston Temple - will be completed either later this year or early 1998.

It will become only the church's second temple in this country, the other the London Temple, being near Lingfield in Surrey.

Church members have been in this country since 1837, seven years after the group was organised in the United States. The oldest continuous branch anywhere in the world is in Preston.

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