ACTING head teacher Mark Bradshaw will stay in charge of Pleckgate High School in Blackburn after no replacement was found before the end of the term.

Mr Bradshaw has been in charge since former head teacher Cherry Ridgeway stepped down in 2014.

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The school is also looking for a deputy headteacher after Nic Ford moved to The Bolton School after the summer term finished last week.

Applications to become the new head teacher closed before Easter but a replacement is still to be appointed. 

It comes as a consultation into whether the school should become an academy finished earlier this month.

The proposal for the Pleckgate Road school, which has almost 1,200 pupils, to sever ties with the local authority has received support from Nicky Morgan, secretary of state for education.

It would be sponsored by Blackburn-based Education Partnership Trust, which already has The Heights Free School and Eden School.

A decision is expected by the end of the year.