Police were called after a seven-year-old boy allegedly held a knife to a girl’s throat in the school dinner hall in an argument – over pizza. The mother of the girl has criticised the school for its “lenient treatment of knife crime”. The boy was suspended for the rest of the day following the incident. Read more about the incident here
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