SCOTLAND
STV
An 83-year-old former priest at Fort Augustus Abbey in the Highlands has denied assaulting eight pupils.
The incidents are alleged to have happened between June 1974 and July 1988 when Thomas Seed was a teacher at the school on the banks of Loch Ness.
Seed, of Brora, Sutherland, who went by the name Father Benedict, denied all charges at Inverness Sheriff Court on Tuesday.
His trial was due to begin next month but has been adjourned and is now expected to go ahead in Inverness on January 23.
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