A CITY school was left with a £300,000 bill after a fire broke out in a store room.
Our Lady’s Bishop Eton primary school, in Woolton, yesterday confirmed it would stay closed until at least next Thursday, to allow a team of specialists to fumigate and clean debris from the premises.
The blaze, which happened on Thursday, September 29, also gutted parts of the roof, ceilings, a classroom, small library and destroyed hundreds of books, computer equipment and a few weeks’ worth of pupils’ work. The billowing smoke also caused damage to other parts of the school, including neighbouring classrooms.
Fire chiefs have said the blaze started in a teacher’s stock cupboard when a defective starter motor in a fluorescent light fitting caused it to catch fire just after the school’s 3.30pm home time.
Headteacher Deborah Bostock praised the calm way the remaining 65 pupils doing after-school activities at the time of the fire left the premises.
