Today's Gazette: School row mum faces prison
8:54am Wednesday 2nd November 2011
A MUM is facing a potential prison sentence as her daughter has not attended school for eight months in a row over her “human rights.” The mum says St Helena School in Colchester's isolation policy, where disruptive pupils are placed in an empty room as a punishment, is a violation of her 16-year-old daughter’s human rights.
Full story in today's Gazette.
Also....Buntings & Sons has revealed it will not appeal a decision to refuse permission for a £25m tourist attraction in Great Horkesley. Instead they plan to submit a scaled down version.
Proposals have been unveiled for a public square at Colchester's St Botolophs train station to give visitors a new impression of the town.
The Company Shed in West Mersea has been listed among Britain's maliest places to eat in Esquire magazine.
- For these and much more see today's Gazette.
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