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A top private school has been rocked by a sex and drink scandal involving 13-year-old pupils. A boy and a girl have been expelled from £30,000-a-year Bedales for having a sexual encounter in a ...

A building with a row of pitched roofs forms Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios' art and design block at Bedales School – a liberal independent school on the edge of the South Downs National Park in ...

Lily Allen and Sophie Dahl both attended Bedales, the boarding school at the centre of a sex abuse controversy A famous boarding school whose alumni include Sophie Dahl and Lily Allen has ...

Labour's plan to put VAT on private school fees amounts to 'levelling down', according to the headteacher of the famously 'progressive' Bedales School. Will Goldsmith said it was unfair to punish ...

The German pilot went to Bedales school! August 15th seemed just like ... I left the harvest field to return to the farm for tea leaving my father, grandfather and others still working.

Alison Willcocks, who has died aged 52, was head of Bedales School from 1994 to 2001, and only the second woman to head a mixed public school. Loved and respected by pupils for her integrity ...

A private school is cutting the number of GCSEs pupils can take because the qualification is “outdated” and not fit for purpose, the headteacher has said. Will Goldsmith, head of Bedales School, a ...

A private school is cutting the number of GCSEs pupils can take because the qualification is “outdated” and not fit for purpose, the headteacher has said. Will Goldsmith, head of Bedales ...