Manchester pandemic reports evacuation information bomb threat area Manchester

School evacuated as police descend on area after bomb threat

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Golborne High School in Golborne, near Wigan, at lunchtime yesterday (Monday November 23) and the school was evacuated as a precaution.

According to headteacher, Alison Gormally, the school managed to get everyone evacuated within four seconds of activating its emergency procedures policy.

Mrs Gormally told Manchester Evening News : "We received a phone call at 12.21pm yesterday and the caller informed us that we had 30 minutes to evacuate the building before a bomb on the school premises would be detonated. "This has never happened in my 15 years of being a headteacher and it would normally be very upsetting but the fact that we're in the middle of a pandemic, where there's a greater degree of anxiety, just makes it even more.

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