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1/1 Father Alban Crossley, the Benedictine monk and former Guestmaster of Ampleforth Abbey, has died in York Hospital at the age of 86. Fr Crossley was born in Farnworth, Lancashire, and first joined the monastic community at Ampleforth in September 1955. Between 1958 and 1961 he took a degree in physics at St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, then from 1961-1965 studied Theology at Fribourg University in Switzerland. Fr Alban was ordained priest on July 18, 1965. From 1968-1979 he worked in the Junior House of Ampleforth College, where for many years he was assistant housema...

Share The school's statement said: 'The failings of the past have been well documented. We have expressed our profound regret and sorrow and will continue to do so. 'Our past has been the major driver in a fundamental transformation over the past two years. We are under new leadership, at both operational and trustee level, with a professionalised safeguarding team.' It added that the school had new management and had severed organisational ties with Ampleforth Abbey, the Benedictine monastery which set up the school in the year in which it was founded, 1802. Peter Turner, 80, formerly Fath...

IF you've never been to Yearsley Woods, then you're in for a treat - weather permitting, of course. No,we're not talking about a small patch of trees beside the River Foss in York. This is a proper forest woodland in the Howardian Hills 10 miles or so north of the city. It gets its name from the tiny hamlet of Yearsley, near Ampleforth. And it is glorious. The woods aren't, perhaps, that ancient. Most of the trees are Forestry Commission plantations that date from the 20th century. But there are pockets of traditional English woodland, too. And as Margaret Atherden points out in her...