PARENT power has struck again, this time at St Bede CE School in Morris Green.

There, a controversial scout hut classroom has been closed just days after it was opened at the start of term. The make-do "classroom" was in no fit state, with concerns about security, ventilation and even toilet arrangements.

The children are now being taught in a library, which is also unsatisfactory but slightly better. The school urgently needs to build at least two new classrooms in the school grounds but local education authority rules prevent it. The LEA blames national government rules.

Someone, somewhere needs to take this situation by the scruff of the neck and cut through hidebound rules.

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