PUPILS studying modern languages at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, practiced some of their conversational skills when they set up a French cafe as part of open day.

The group of lower sixth formers ran Cafe Des Reves, meaning Cafe of Dreams, as part of the event on Friday night and Saturday morning.

School spokesman Phil Lloyd, explained: "All the departments put on individual things to give a people a flavour of the school and the cafe was something the modern languages students came up with themselves.

"I hasten to add there was no real wine in those bottles though!"

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