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Last Updated: Tuesday, 2 May 2006, 13:51 GMT 14:51 UK
Fire-hit school opens to pupils
Photograph by Andy Meakin, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service
Rebuild costs are expected to run into millions of pounds
Pupils at a Derbyshire school badly damaged by a fire, are returning to the site for lessons and exams.

Sinfin Community school lost a large section of the main block in a fire that broke out on 22 March.

The children are already back in two of the three blocks, and now the main building will be back in use after a final clean-up.

Until now, pupils have been having lessons in nearby sports centres and church halls.

The exact cause of the fire is still not known but police are treating it as suspicious.

Damage to the site is estimated at more than £10m.


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