Four schools in Middlesbrough closing early before the funeral of one of the men killed in the A66 crash have been accused of giving in to ‘thugs’.
The schools will send children home at lunchtime in a decision the Shadow Education Secretary said was ‘wrong’.
Laura Trott, who retained her brief in Kemi Badenoch‘s Conservative frontbench reshuffle, said the Government should ensure ‘criminal gangs don’t get their way’.
Two police officers and five young men were killed on August 22 when a Volkswagen Passat, which had been chased by police, hit a marked armed response car while driving the wrong way down the
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