Leader's Stance Seen As U-Turn

The Northern Echo › January 12, 2006

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A COUNCIL leader at the centre of a controversial schools merger has defended a promise that he made to parents a decade ago.

In 1995 Councillor John Williams, now leader of Darlington Borough Council, wrote to all parents at Hurworth School, near Darlington, reassuring them that the new unitary Darlington Council would not close the school.

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Leader's Stance Seen As U-Turn

However last year his council announced plans to close Hurworth and Eastbourne Comprehensive in Darli...

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