Lily Howells and, from left, Hannah Houston, Eloise Lake, Mary Fulford, Shriya Subramanyam and Brooke Wilson
Sixteen hundred years after the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, students from the legionary fortress city of York are still speaking Latin.
For the 20th year running, a pupil at the Mount School, in York, won a prize in the Latin reading competition run by Leeds Classical Association, at Leeds University.
A team of six Year Eight girls, Mary Fulford, Hannah Houston, Lily Howells, Eloise Lake, Shriya Subramanyam and Brooke Wilson, competed in the beginners’ section against various schools across North and West Yorkshire.
Lily won joint first prize, bringing to 66 the total number of prizes won by the school pupils since it began competing in 1990.
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