School decision is due

A meeting was being held today to decide which secondary school hundreds of Chirk youngsters will attend.

Campaigners in the town want their children to continue to get free transport to Ysgol Dinas Bran in Llangollen, which has been Chirk's secondary school for generations.

But a new policy proposed by Wrexham Council officers is suggesting that the children should only get free transport to their nearest school.

The change would mean the pupils would go to Ruabon School, ending Chirk's historic links to Llangollen and Dinas Bran.

Wrexham Council's executive board was due to meet this afternoon to make a final decision.

Chirk borough councillor Ian Roberts said he was concerned the proposal to send children to their nearest school was still up for discussion.

At a meeting last month, councillors had decided that today's meeting should receive only one recommendation and that was that children should be sent to their nearest traditional school, which in Chirk's case would be Dinas Bran.

Mr Roberts said he was surprised that despite the councillors' findings, officers were still recommending a change in policy.

He said: "I will await the decision of the executive board with interest and consider whether to bring it back to the full council to call it in."