FACED with the Ribble Valley not having enough secondary school places, education chiefs may build another school.
That may be the long-term solution to the problem. But what of the interim - when, once more, scores of children may have to be bussed to schools miles away and split up from their friends?
Cannot some temporary classrooms be added to the local schools that are bursting at the seams?
It is, after all, a remedy that has been used before - and should be once more if it spares the sort of upheaval and heartache we have already seen.
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