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York High School fire

A firefighter battling the blaze at York High School

Counting £200,000 cost of York High School fire
THE blaze that ripped through York High School has cost the city’s education authority nearly £1 million, new figures have revealed.

The Portakabin classrooms at York High School. From left, head teacher David Ellis, Stephen Sampson and Nigel Blair

York High School pupils return ‘home’

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York hotel saves charity auction

A lesson in coping

A lesson in coping

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Fire ‘started in school kiln’

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Lessons resume at various locations for fire-hit pupils

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York slated for slow planning process

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Auction stations

Westfield Primary School pupils watch as a              temporary           classroom for York High School pupils is lifted into place

Classrooms organised for burnt-out school’s pupils

York High School head David Ellis addresses pupils and parents

Parents mass for emergency forum

The York High School press conference at The Guildhall. Pictured, from left, are Brian Crosby, David Ellis and Pete Dwyer.

Action plan for blaze-hit pupils

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Action plan to get pupils back to school

A firefighter surveys the damage caused by the blaze at York High School

What caused the York High School fire?

York High School head teacher David Ellis, centre, talks to York MP Hugh Bayley, left, and City of York Council leader Coun Andrew Waller

MP praises school staff

York High School student Alex Dykes, front, with some of her friends who all lost valuable coursework in the fire at the school

Students distraught as coursework is destroyed in York school blaze

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Activities set up for fire-hit pupils

The devastated classrooms

Explosions went off ‘just like fireworks’

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Families left without power

Danny Westmoreland

Cause of massive fire still unknown

Coun Andrew Waller at the scene

Reader tells of drama

SHOCKED: David Ellis, head teacher at York High School

No lessons for a week

SHOCK: Onlookers watch in                  disbelief as flames rip through York High School

Moment of disaster

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School opening update

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School opening times latest

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Residents without power following school fire

Fire fighters tackle the York High School blaze

70 fire fighters tackle York High School blaze

Flames engulf York High School.

Fire rips through York High School

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