Hove school closed because of gas leak - but don't blame the French

12:53pm Tuesday 22nd January 2013 in News By Anna Roberts, Crime reporter

A Hove secondary school has closed – because of a gas leak.

Cardinal Newman School in The Upper Drive is currently closed but Brighton and Hove City Council said it was nothing to do with the French stink.

Pupils have been sent home and the school’s phone lines are down.

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Charlie Oscar says...
1:09pm Tue 22 Jan 13

Praise that some teachers let pupils use their mobiles as phone lines were down due to having a switchboard which requires power, but for future problems it would be nice for the school to have a text service they could access on a remote device if power is down.

We had no comms from school and whilst Im sure the school did the best they could, this day and age of tech devices, it would not be difficult to externally send group text.

Also a little more updates on the web site over school snow closures.

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TrickyRicky says...
2:00pm Tue 22 Jan 13

What a strange co-incindence that it happened at the same time as the gas smell from France - oops!!

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derekhunt says...
2:15pm Tue 22 Jan 13

I'll blame the French if I **** well want to blame the French thank you very much.

It's my god given right as a good Englishman

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escarr15 says...
5:09pm Tue 22 Jan 13

Charlie Oscar wrote:
Praise that some teachers let pupils use their mobiles as phone lines were down due to having a switchboard which requires power, but for future problems it would be nice for the school to have a text service they could access on a remote device if power is down.

We had no comms from school and whilst Im sure the school did the best they could, this day and age of tech devices, it would not be difficult to externally send group text.

Also a little more updates on the web site over school snow closures.
As far as I know Newman has no text service and it is standard policy for pupils to use mobile phones now so the school could be evacuated swiftly. There was no power in the building and senior management seemed pretty busy trying to get 2000 people out of the site.

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Mariaklu says...
5:18pm Tue 22 Jan 13

i go to this school and thought the gas smell was because of the french gas problem, on the website it says that the school was evacuated because of all the electrical power needing to be isolated and switched off. im hoping this lasts longer than the snow event as we were only off for five hours and had to go to school monday.

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Charlie Oscar says...
6:43pm Tue 22 Jan 13

As far as I know Newman has no text service and it is standard policy for pupils to use mobile phones now so the school could be evacuated swiftly. There was no power in the building and senior management seemed pretty busy trying to get 2000 people out of the site.”

"well perhaps they should have a text service.
What about the children without phones or cannot afford them"

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