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Marie Sharp

New East Lothian secondary school pupils sent back to P7 after classroom closures

Hundreds of first year pupils due to attend a secondary school which has had to close a third of its classrooms due to roof issues will go back to primary after summer.

Preston Lodge High School, in East Lothian, has been identified as being built using a lightweight concrete which has sparked alarm nationally.

However the decision to close 23 of its 71 classrooms while work to make them safe is carried out means pupils due to move into S1 in August are now being sent back to their old schools.

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