Sidney Stringer, Coventry

[tech_guy]

My usual drive home tonight took me past Sidney Stringer in Coventry - a shocking sight to see it ablaze. 40% of it gone & they think it was arson. Thank God no-one was hurt.

 

Imagine the work lost and the work involved in trying to get it back up and running....

[saundersmatt]

Eeek, burning schools are far to common around these parts!

They may be fortunate that it's mainly the sports hall area that has been effected.

I can relate to how much work is involved in getting everything set back up though.

 

Matt

[localzuk]

Some links:

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7013157.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7012958.stm

[SimAda00]

I live in coventry, and work at its respective university. and when i got home i could see the smoke from my bedroom window. see the picture. that was taken after the smoke had lost its very very think black look. but walking home from work yesturday at about 3:50 along the hollyhead road, i must of seen about 20+ fire engine's. link to picture: http://www.a-simmonds.co.uk/publiccontent/DSC00310.jpg

 

Adam

[joolsyjoolsy]

I work for one of the departments which support Sidney Stringer school and we are helping with getting locations setup for the kids to continue their work and ICT. I also have their admin server sat on my desk. The whole school has such a massive road ahead of them now to get back on track - good luck to em - I hope they can have a fantastic new school renovation for the kids and a bigger car park - 'cos it was a nightmare to park there!

[stephenleak]

Hopefully, the new school will have better fire proofing, fire detection and fire prevention systems. I assume the police will be checking all pupils' mobiles for suspiciously early footage of the fire?