A primary school has submitted a planning application to build a permanent library and special needs room.

Shelf strife - pupils Cassy Green, Claire Wakeling and Lewis Hancock fight to keep books on the shelf in their makeshift library at Cressing Primary School. Picture: ADRIAN RUSHTON 40591-2

Cressing Primary School, in Tye Green, has been using a temporary building for about six years and children have to go outside of the main building to use the library.

The school has been successful in getting £25,000 funding from Essex County Council, which it must match.

Headteacher Carol Leverett said: "We are going to be building a new library in part of the courtyard of the school.

"The demountable is beginning to sink and I think it will only just about get through this winter. We are very excited about the new library."

Published Monday, January 24, 2005

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