‘End of road’ for historic school after last-ditch deal collapses
A Catholic boarding school in Dorset that fell into administration last month will not reopen in September.
Staff, parents and former pupils of St Mary’s, in Shaftesbury, were fighting to save the all-girls’ school and had raised hundreds of thousands of pounds as part of the campaign.
But an agreement in principle to bring the school out of administration collapsed last week, with…