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Michael Gove robs cash from 'freezing' school
Funds siphoned away into Michael Gove's pet project

Outraged MP Grahame Morris slammed Michael Gove's claim that teachers are "enemies of promise" yesterday and revealed that Durham kids are taught in the cold after cash was robbed for one of the Education Secretary's flagship free schools.

Mr Gove claimed at the Tory conference on Tuesday that teachers were "striking against the growth and potential of poor children."

But Mr Morris revealed how classrooms in one local school in his Easington constituency have leaking ceilings and no heating after a move to new buildings was cancelled.

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