Furious staff have defaced signs at a historic private school demanding to be paid after its new owners blindsided them and told them they were shutting it down in just two weeks.
Others at 137-year-old Abbotsholme School were so stunned that they were unable to carry on teaching after they were told the shock news at a surprise staff meeting.
Instead they told children who turned up for afternoon lessons on Thursday that the school was closing, leaving them to call their parents in tears.
Horrified parents at the Staffordshire school who now face finding new schools ‘out of the blue’ for their
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