Schools closed due to snow

9:06am Monday 21st January 2013 in News

SEVERAL schools across the borough have been closed due to the snowy weather.

Emmanuel Holcombe, Greenhill, Peel Brow, Chapelfield, Edenfield and Hollins Grundy primary schools have all been fully closed.

Philips High School will close early at 2.30pm.

Woodhey High School and Tottington High School opened late to allow snow to be cleared from their sites.

Comments(3)

Babbar Divino says...
6:37pm Tue 22 Jan 13

I never remember schools closing when I was young and yes it did snow back then. It's all the fault of the hi-viz, elf and safety brigade and a litigious society.

People need to get on with it. It's a bit of snow not a tsunami.

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R'Marcus says...
12:05pm Fri 25 Jan 13

Babbar Divino wrote:
I never remember schools closing when I was young and yes it did snow back then. It's all the fault of the hi-viz, elf and safety brigade and a litigious society.

People need to get on with it. It's a bit of snow not a tsunami.
Well written, Babbar.
In the 1980s and 1990s there was snow, as we all know and remember. We just got on with in then.
The elf and safety lot have a lot to answer to.

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carlchrystan says...
5:27pm Fri 25 Jan 13

I think it's more than health and safety; it's all about litigation. In our ambulance-chaser culture of the 21st century, councils and other organisations are petrified of the no-win-no-fee lot (who prey on the general population) coming along with a kid in a neck brace and a claim for compensation. Financially safer (not necessarily physically safer) to close the school.

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