A MOTHER'S bid to save St Paul's Primary School in Ramsbottom from closure failed at London's High Court yesterday (Mon Feb 3).
Tracy Bradley had argued that the entire process by which it was decided that the school in Crow Lane should close next August had been "tainted by illegality".
But Mr Justice Mackay said she had left it too late to pursue her claim that the initial decision to close the school had been wrongly taken by an executive committee of Bury Council in May last year when it could only lawfully have been taken by the full council.
The committee's decision, made on the basis of "surplus places" at the school, was later confirmed by the Bury Schools Organisation Committee and by the independent Bury Schools Adjudicator.
Full story and reaction in Friday's Bury Times
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