A school has been slapped with a £30,000 fine after a teenage boy slipped and another went missing during a trip to the Lake District.
Gateshead School in Newcastle took pupils on a 6.5-mile hike up Helvellyn, in early March, despite a weather warning of ice and the need for safety equipment.
A court heard how the children of the all-boys Orthodox Jewish school were wearing just their school shoes or trainers and school trousers or tracksuits for the trek up the 950m high mountain.
