AFTER completing a risk assessment, the governing body at Sudell Primary School in Darwen has decided that it will close on May 7, when it will act as a polling station.
A spokesman for the school said that it was because it would be too difficult to ensure that unknown adults do not access areas where the children would be playing.
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