A school coach trip to Paris was cancelled by a tour operator with just 24 hours notice, leaving 138 teenage pupils and staff devastated. The trip for Year Eight pupils at Stretford Grammar School was 12 months in the planning, said one mum who revealed her son was in tears at the news.
The pupils - mostly aged 13 - were due to leave the school - on Granby Road, Stretford - on coaches at around 11pm on Thursday evening, driving to Dover ahead of a ferry to France and coach drive to Paris, where cultural trips to the Eiffel Tower and other attractions were planned ahead of their return next Tuesday.
It's understood the trip cost parents and carers around £500 each, without factoring in clothing and other essential items for their children. But the school was contacted by the company, PGL, at 9.30am today - Wednesday - saying they had to cancel because 'we have been unable to source coaches for the trip'. The children were told the news in a morning assembly today (Wednesday).
