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Fr. Simon Sleeman, a monk at Glenstal Abbey, revels in the life lessons his beehives have taught him during his 40 years as bee-keeper at the Limerick monastery.

A SCIENCE teacher and monk who returned to teach at the school he himself went to, has died aged 88.

It was helpful for the lawyer Philip White to attend the annual week-long retreats at Ampleforth Abbey and soak up the peace of the North Yorkshire location. If he was naturally garrulous, with a

LEADING catholic independent school Ampleforth College has been given the go ahead to admit new pupils by the Department for Education. The £36,000 a year school was stopped from taking in new pupils after "very serious" safeguarding failures highlighted by Ofsted inspectors following a visit last November. The school had been at the centre of historic child abuse concerns after it came under fire following a report by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse in 2018. A further Ofsted inspection last month said the school, within the grounds of the Benedictine Ampleforth Abbey...

Ampleforth College is one of the most prominent Catholic private schools in the country. But In 2018, an independent inquiry found that a number of children there had suffered appalling sexual abuse  over decades, involving monks at Ampleforth Abbey. In November the school was banned by the government from accepting new pupils, after it failed to show inspectors that it could keep them safe. Now this programme has seen a letter to the government from a solicitor for victims of historic abuse at the school, alleging it has not fully separated itself from the Abbey, as it had been told to. The...