School awarded £1.4m

A Suffolk school has been given almost £1.5m for a new arts block.

The 1,300-pupil King Edward VI School in Bury St Edmunds has been awarded a grant of £1.4m by the government.

The money will pay for an exhibition space and sculpture park.

Head teacher Geoff Barton said existing equipment would be installed in the new block, but they planned to add more.

"The money we have been allocated from government funds is to build a new shell and we will be a looking for money to improve the quality of what is inside," he said.

He said the school also had ambitions for a new state-of-the-art information technology block but the would need to find the funding to finance it.