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29/12/2011

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The fate of private school in North Devon remains unclear this evening

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following two emergency meetings held for parents and staff. Parents

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of pupils at St Michael's near Barnstaple received letters earlier

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this week telling them that the school was in financial

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difficulties. This woman has an 11 year-old son at St Michael's. She

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arrived at the school after getting a letter saying there would be a

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special meeting for staff and parents. I feel like I am in

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mourning. I really do. This is such a family environment for the

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children, parents, grandparents, everything. St Michael's is a co-

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educational day school overlooking the Taw Valley. It also has a

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popular nursery. A representative from the NUT said numbers and the

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main school have been falling. essentially we are faced with here

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is the complete closure of the school. It is not a question of

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individual redundancies and things of that sort. In that sense, for

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the school community, the staff as well as the parents and pupils,

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there is only one word, catastrophe. After two hours parents left the

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meeting, many were hopeful the school could be this good, others

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were angry. It is a wonderful school. I think on the whole it is

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going to be very positive and I think we will be OK. Other schools

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are offering places for pupils. are here principally to help

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children and families who are in a real crisis at the moment and who

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are anxiously looking for a place for their children for next week.

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That is why I am here. St Michael's motto is, where bright futures

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begin, now its future is in the balance. The MoD has named the

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Royal Marine who died in Afghanistan three days before

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Christmas. Captain Tom Jennings was fatally injured in a bomb blast in

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Kabul. They said he was a true leader and archetypal Royal Marine,

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he was devoted to his wife and their two sons. New rules on cage

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sizes are being introduced on the 1st January after which hens will

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have to be housed in a particular size of age. These chickens were

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ought to be the last which will ever live in the old style battery

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cages. People were queuing up to offer them new homes when they were

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released. Battery chickens need a home. I thought, OK. It feels

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absolutely wonderful. I could not be more happy that this is the last

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day we will be taking hens out of those tiny cages. While it is good

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news for the chickens many are concerned that other European

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farmers will not be adopting the rules. Foreign egg products will be

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coming in. �400 billion has been spent to upgrade in the UK and it

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is not happening in the rest of Europe. -- 400 million. This is the

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first time the have been outside and seen delight and freezing cold

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rain! On the whole, it should still be a happy day for them. New

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scanners are being introduced on roads in the south-west to reduce

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the time roads are closed after crashes. E T D laser equipment

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makes images of the whole crash site so that investigators do not

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have to take photographs individually of the scene. -- the

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3D lasers. It is a massive Christmas present. There will be a

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big cheer from so many people. We estimate that for every hour that

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the M5 is closed by a serious accident it costs the local economy

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about �1 million. It is fantastic to see that the police now look as

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if they are going to be able to get this bit of kit. Now we are looking

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back at these stories of the Year which inspired you and made you

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smile. What were thought to be Britain's last battery chickens

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left their site today. The British hen welfare trust today collected

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the last hen's housed in old-style This car has rolled 200 ft down a

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cliff and hangs precariously 300 ft above the sea. What is even more

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incredible is that the woman inside this car has had to wait 18 hours

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to be rescued. There will be many fond memories of HMS Cornwall but

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for the fighting 99 as she is known, the fighting is over. I could feel

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me sinking and then was just waste deep in mud. Things had gone badly

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wrong after cockle hunting. needed to be pulled to safety by

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coastguards. I put her on the board and she rode back in, from that

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point I realised I had a surfing dog. It has been six years since St

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Denis was first suggested as the site for Cornwall's waste generator.

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-- incinerator. He took the vital call from supporters and the High

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Court. We've done it! Yes! My home was going to be ruined by it. Now

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they have passed it I have got my home back. -- now they have quashed

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it. Emily Lewis Clark was no lone striker here, her whole team were

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right behind her. Their goal was to overturn a rule that would force

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Emily out of the team when she turned 11. I am so happy that I can

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carry on playing football. Time now for the weather with Emily. Some

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wet weather on its way for tonight. There is a weather system currently

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over the Atlantic which is moving very quickly and will bring rain

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foremost a buzz by tomorrow morning. This evening it will cloud over

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with rain arriving during the second half of the night. It will

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feel milder as time goes on. There will still be brisk west to north-

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westerly winds. Tomorrow will have generally lighter rain at first, it

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will turn heavy for a time tomorrow morning and staying wet pretty much

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