CHILDREN at a second primary school are to have emergency meningitis jabs following the death of a two-year-old Blackburn girl.

More than 200 youngsters at St Oswald's CE Primary and pre-school playgroup in Knuzden were immunised on Monday after the death of Kourtney Burns, of Audley Range, who died at Booth Hall Children's Hospital, Manchester, after being admitted with suspected meningitis.

Tomorrow all 190 pupils at St Albans RC School, Trinity Street, Blackburn, will be offered the meningitis C vaccine.

Two of Kourtney's brothers, Nathan,11 and Joshua, five, are pupils at St Albans. Public health nurses were already due at the school tomorrow to vaccinate the 10 and 11-year-olds as part of the East Lancashire immunisation programme, but headteacher Peter Keegan said they had now decided to offer all children the jab in the light of the tragedy. Mr Keegan said: "The view was that because the nurses will be here anyway giving jabs to the year five and six children, they would offer the vaccine to all pupils to allay any anxieties that parents may have.

"It makes sense and I think it is a prudent and wise move. We have written to the parents and kept them informed."

Meanwhile, members of the choir at St Albans School were today taking part in Kourtney's funeral at St Albans Church.

Among the mourners will be her parents Sharron and Joseph and her brothers and sisters Sarajane, Jaybe, Traci, Nathan, Joshua and Enid.

Mr Keegan added: "Words cannot express the devastation that the Burns' family must be feeling and all our thoughts are with them."