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MONKS and nuns were frisked by police yesterday as crowds turned out for the Pope’s first public engagement on English soil.

The sedate west London suburb of Strawberry Hill near Twickenham was transformed into a riot of colour as thousands of schoolchildren and members of the clergy descended on the area.

Amid tight security, guests queued in a good-natured fashion in the early morning chill as they waited for the Pope to arrive at St Mary’s University College, where he was to address thousands of children for an event celebrating Catholic education.