TEACHERS, pupils and parents took to the streets to try to save Everton High School, Blackburn, from closure.
Armed with banners and petitions they sought support from shoppers as details of a campaign to save their school were unveiled.
County councillors were lobbied, and teachers, parents, pupils, non-teaching staff and trade unions all joined forces to fight the closure, due to falling pupil numbers in the town.
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