Lloyd Davis has a great piece of blog reportage from last night in London:
On my way home tonight, passing Pimlico School, I saw a couple of policemen inside the gates. I prickled, thinking poor them, it’s so cold and they’ve got to go in there and find someone who’s disappeared over the fence or something.It turned out there was something less dramatic but just as interesting and exciting going on. A group of ex-governors are protesting against the demolition of the school and its transformation into an Academy. They were helped by some anti-grafitti artists who used a high-pressure hose to clean off the words “Anti Academy School” on the front wall.
Watch the through-the-bars interview with a former governor who ends up in debate with a passing pupil about the virtues or otherwise of the iconic/brutalist architecture, and whether it could be renovated rather than demolished. Here's Melissa Benn in the Guardian last October, and the Westminster City Council press release. Will anyone else cover last night's events? Maybe, but I doubt with such a human touch.
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