SOME 300 pupils were sent home from Newton Abbot’s Highweek Primary School today after staff received a malicious ‘bomb’ call.
Police rushed to the Coronation Road school after being tipped off that a suspected bomb hoax call had been received.
No one at the school was available for comment this afternoon, but a message on its website said: ‘All children to be collected from the rear of the school site by parents/carers today please, Friday, 27 May 2016. Emergency procedures in place.’
A police spokesman stressed that no staff or pupils had been in danger as a result of any of the calls this week.
In a repeat of their message from earlier in the week they insisted: ‘While we are currently of the opinion that these call are without substance, as a precaution, police officers attended each of the schools in question.’
Anyone with information about the latest matter in Newton Abbot should email police on [email protected] or call 101.