Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids The reason video cameras were mysteriously placed outside a primary school has been revealed.
The Manchester Evening Newsreported earlier how residents raised concerns about the equipment, which appeared in Ravenwood Drive outside Poplar Primary School in Audenshaw, Tameside.
Even school staff were in the dark, with headteacher Iain Linsdell saying police told him to advise parents to 'obscure your child's face as you leave school until they will come and remove them and investigate further'.
But just as residents were preparing to take action themselves - with Councillor Oliver Ryan threatening to cut them down - the
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