A MOTHER has withdrawn her daughter from school amid claims she had endured eight months of hell at the hands of bully boys.

June Moore's action comes just six weeks before her daughter Tarnya is due to sit her GCSEs -- and now the anguished mother fears her daughter's whole life will be affected by the bullies.

Mrs Moore, of Cliff Street, Rishton, claims that teachers at Moorhead High School, in Queens Road West, Accrington, have allowed her 15-year-old daughter to be bullied verbally for more than eight months.

Now, after Tarnya came home saying she had been hit by a teenage boy in the playground, she has pulled her daughter out of school -- and blasted education chiefs for refusing to teach her at home.

Mrs Moore said: "My daughter isn't an attention seeker. She just wants to get an education and have a good time at school. But for the past eight months she has been constantly taunted by a group of youngsters who have got others involved as well.

"The school don't seem prepared to do what we want, which is expel the bullies."

A spokesman for Lancashire County Council, speaking on behalf of the school, said arrangements have been made for Tarnya to be taught by herself. Mrs Moore added: "I know removing my daughter from school could be seen as me causing her to struggle in her GCSEs but what would other parents do if their daughter was waking up at five in the morning screaming and having nightmares?"

A spokesman for Lancashire County Council, speaking on behalf of the school, said : "We are fully aware of this allegation of bullying and are treating it seriously.

"The school has gone to great lengths to ensure this pupil can continue her education at the school including providing tuition for her away from other pupils. We take the allegations very seriously"