1 Bishop Alan Williams with nine new canons of the Diocese of Brentwood, the first in the diocese for almost 40 years (photo: Graham Hillman).
2 George Ellison, a student at St Ambrose College, has won the North-West regional heats of the Catenian’s annual public speaking competition, held at Manchester Conference Hall.
3 Patric Heath holds a tarantula during a psychology lesson on phobias at St Bede’s Catholic College in Bristol.
4 Students at Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy in Ilkeston, Derbyshire, are working with the latest design technology equipment thanks to an £800 grant from Rolls-Royce.
5 A team of business studies students from St Edmund’s College, near Ware, were runners up out of 125 schools in a national competition, The Real Business Challenge, run by Coca-Cola Enterprises.
6 Pupils at St Dominic’s Primary in Crieff, Perth and Kinross, celebrate the school’s 125th anniversary with Dominican Brother Andrew Brookes, Fr Tom Shields, Dominican Mother-General Pauline Burling, Bishop Stephen Robson, headteacher Elizabeth Hunter and Dr Harry Schnitker.
7 Catherine Joao and Caitlin Ault, pupils at Saint Benedict Catholic Voluntary Academy, have been commended by Derby City Council for their entries in a competition marking Holocaust Memorial Day.
8 Benediction takes place on Candlemas at St Osmund’s, Gainford, Co Durham, a church served by the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
9 Fr Michael Lambert of the Our Lady Immaculate and St Andrew Church in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, is preparing to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ordination in March.
10 Students at St Benedict’s School, Ealing, west London, perform West Side Story.
11 Parents of pupils at St Thomas More Catholic School in Wood Green, north London, take part in English lessons at the school.
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