Winchester College

A report has exposed the Church of England's failure to act on severe abuse by John Smyth QC, a Cambridge barrister linked to the church, who assaulted over 100 boys from elite schools in the 1970s and 1980s.

Receiving a rejection letter from the University of Oxford is common, but one applicant has turned the tables by sending a 'rejection letter' to the prestigious varsity on the ground that it is not up to the mark. But 19-year-old Elly Nowell, who went to a state-funded school rather than an elite private school in Winchester, Hampshire, parodied th...

A report has exposed the Church of England's failure to act on severe abuse by John Smyth QC, a Cambridge barrister linked to the church, who assaulted over 100 boys from elite schools in the 1970s and 1980s.

Receiving a rejection letter from the University of Oxford is common, but one applicant has turned the tables by sending a 'rejection letter' to the prestigious varsity on the ground that it is not up to the mark. But 19-year-old Elly Nowell, who went to a state-funded school rather than an elite private school in Winchester, Hampshire, parodied th...