A TEENAGE student is recovering in intensive care after falling from a three-storey window at the prestigious Stonyhurst College.

The 17-year-old is understood to have plunged onto an ornamental cannon after a night out in Clitheroe town centre.

The student, who is believed to be from Leicester, suffered serious injuries including a badly broken right leg and is in the intensive care unit at Blackburn Royal Infirmary.

He is thought to have been out to Clitheroe with a group of college friends hours before the fall. After leaving the town centre they were later spotted socialising in the grounds of Stonyhurst Golf Club.

An ambulance from Clitheroe station was later called to the college at 4.30am on Sunday after receiving a report that the boy had fallen from a window.

An ambulance spokesman said the boy had suffered a broken right leg.

The spokesman said: "It was a bad break and he lost a lot of blood."

A Stonyhurst College spokesman said: "One of our pupils had a fall at Stonyhurst last weekend and was admitted to hospital where he is making a steady recovery."

He denied a curfew had been imposed on all students entering Clitheroe.

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