Should the tourist industry fund repairs to Holy Trinity Church? This building has been the subject of my blog for some weeks now and finally the tourist industry has taken a proactive step in the right direction.

A group of 34 travel agents from the US have donated $200 towards the vital repair work needed to keep Shakespeare's final resting place open to the public. The money was originally raised by the Anne Hudgins Shakespeare Class.

Of course, many other tourists have already donated to the church by paying the small fee to see the Bard's grave when touring Shakespeare's Stratford.

Like it or not, it seems that a large proportion of the bill will be picked up by the tourist industry in one way or another.

If you would like to save Shakespeare's final resting place, then donations can be made online to The Friends of Shakespeare's Church. Simply visit www.shakespeareschurch.org.

I was appalled to learn that a company of Shakespeare actors was jeered off stage by drunks during an open air performance of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Tunbridge Wells, UK.

The Pantiles Players has been performing Shakespeare on a local bandstand since World War Two, but have now decided to cancel the project following a barrage of abuse from drunks at a nearby pub. The actors have finally had enough of being jeered at by idiots saying that they "look gay" in their Shakespearean costume.

The free community performances have been disrupted since England introduced a smoking ban in public places, forcing smokers at the nearby pub out onto the street of Tunbridge Wells.

I know that Shakespeare isn't for everyone, but where's the community spirit? Although I can't vouch for the quality of the performance, I suspect that this reaction to Shakespeare is more common than we'd like to think. I've sat a few times in theaters with restless idiots behind me ruining the performance.

At the risk of opening a can of worms, I'd like to hear about your Shakespeare horror stories. Has the utter disrespect or a sad lack of interest on someone else's part ever ruined a Shakespeare performance for you?

This year I keep returning to Shakespeare's final resting place, Holy Trinity Church, to report on how money can be found to repair the historic building and save it from closure.

In my blog last month, I raised the issue that Shakespeare himself was responsible for financing repairs to Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon because he bought tithe land on condition that the Shakespeare family finance all future repairs.

I casually discussed this as if it were an archaic and unenforceable law - but, the last few weeks have proved that this is not the case.

A few miles away from Holy Trinity Church is St John the Baptist Church in the village of Aston Cantlow. It is believed that Shakespeare's parents were married there because the family home of Shakespeare's mother is nearby.

An ancient covenant required the owners of a local Grade II-listed farmhouse to pay for the upkeep of the Chancel. After loosing a 20-year legal battle with the Church of England, they have been forced to auction their home to fund £230,000 worth of repairs.

Since the auction took place last week, the story has divided opinion in the UK. What's your reaction? Who should fund these repairs? Is this a "necessary evil" to protect the UK's architectural history? Or is there something very un-Christian about the church's actions?

The key mysteries that surround the authorship of Shakespeare's plays has perplexed and enraged scholars for centuries. And now, Sir Brian Vickers, an authority on Shakespeare at the Institute of English Studies at the University of London, has drained all passion out of the debate.

Did Shakespeare ever collaborate? Did Shakespeare write the unattributed play about Edward III (published in 1596 when Shakespeare was 31)? All questions that fire the heart of any Shakespeare enthusiast.

In a less passionate moment, Vickers fed the text of Edward III into a computer designed to detect plagiarism and clicked "Go". A few moments later, the results collated in his printer tray as if the centuries of debate had never happened.

The result? Yes, Shakespeare did write Edward III because there are close matches with the phrases used in Shakespeare's early works. Rather more interestingly, the results also proved that the Bard collaborated with Thomas Kyd, best known for The Spanish Tragedy, a play known to have influenced Shakespeare.

About 40 per cent of the play was written by Shakespeare, while the other 60 per cent was contributed by Kyd.

In truth, I felt a little deflated when I read this story. I much prefer the debate, the passion and the mystery ... a computer print out just doesn't do it for me. Ah, well! There goes scholarship!