City Academy unfit to open

A school that is being rebuilt as a City Academy is in such a dangerous state pupils have been unable to start the new term, it emerged today.

Six hundred children will miss a total of eight days at Malory School in Lewisham because the site is unsafe for them to attend.

Malory School is due to become Haberdasher's Aske's Knights Academy in September next year.

Teachers at the school arrived last week to find the area that was supposed to be fit for use had been left in a "filthy and disgusting" state.

Lewisham council was forced to re-open a disused primary school to house Malory's pupils until the end of this week.