For all the latest news from in and around Bolton, sign up for the free MyBolton newsletter Emergency powers have been used to reconstitute the governing body of a primary school after eight governors simultaneously walked out.
Eight governors at Egerton Primary School handed in their resignations, saying in a letter that they ‘needed to protect their integrity’ and that they had ‘been prevented from being able to govern effectively’.
The shock mass resignation meant the school had lost eight of its 10 non-staff governors. READ MORE: Man 'lucky to be alive' after trying to use stun gun he bought from stranger as a 'shaver' It forced Bolton Council to intervene and establish an emergency interim executive board to run the village school.
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