BOMB SCARE: Police confirmed that a telephone threat was made to Tonacliffe Primary
A SCHOOL in Rossendale has been evacuated after a bomb threat was made earlier today.
Police confirmed that a telephone threat was made to an operator regarding Tonacliffe Primary, in Whitworth, shortly after 9am.
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Education officials are said to have ordered the school's evacuation and teachers and pupils are not expected to return today.
A Lancashire Police spokesman said: "We were called at around 9am this morning to reports of a bomb threat at Tonnacliffe School, Whitworth.
"At this stage we do not believe it to be a credible threat and enquiries are on-going to establish where the call has come from.
"The school have made the decision to evacuate the building and send pupils home."
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