Teign School, Kingsteignton, has been given planning permission to build a new £2.8million sports hall.

The decision means an end to a 17-year struggle to shed the stigma of being just one of two schools countywide not to have comprehensive under-cover sports facilities.

The only other school similarly blighted was Teignmouth Community College but that too has now been told it can have its own hall.

The go-ahead for both schemes was given on Wednesday by members of the Devon County Council's development management committee sitting at County Hall.

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