LANCASHIRE Tory MPs today joined in angry protests over the Government's refusal to find extra finance to help repair the county's crumbling schools.

They were furious with Junior Education Minister Bob Dunn for failing to give a detailed reply to the case they and Labour MPs put forward at a meeting with Sir Keith Joseph.

Hyndburn MP Ken Hargreaves denounced the minister's responses as "not satisfactory."

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