Meeting over schools fight

CAMPAIGNERS are holding a public meeting tonight to discuss their next move in a battle to stop two community schools being replaced with academies.

The Community School Action Group is staging the event at Mitchell Business and Enterprise College, Causeley Road, Bucknall, at 7.30pm.

It comes just weeks after Stoke-on-Trent City Council threw out an outline planning application to build an academy on green space in Adderley Green to replace Mitchell College.

Berry Hill High is also facing closure to make way for an academy in Fenton.

The action group wants a new school on the Mitchell site instead.

Speakers will include MP Mark Fisher and Pat Smith, who chairs Mitchell's governing body.