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Kelly-Ann Mills & Ryan Merrifield

School fined £35,000 after boy, 7, accidentally set on FIRE during nativity play

A school where a seven-year-old was accidentally set on fire during a nativity play has been handed a £35,000 fine by the Health and Safety Executive.

The boy, now 10, was wearing a sheep costume made of cotton wool next to another child who tripped while holding a candle in a plastic cup and accidentally set his outfit on fire.

St Thomas Becket Catholic Primary School's former headteacher Noel Campbell raced to rescue the boy along with another adult, burning their own hands as they patted the flames out.

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