BREAKING: Bomb scare at school
POLICE raced to a school this afternoon after a bomb scare.
Parents at Burford School were sent an email saying that everybody inside had been evacuated because of a 'security issue'.
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Thames Valley Police said that the school received a recorded phone message claiming there a bomb inside the school.
Headteachers, who have been contacted for a comment, made the decision to evacuate the building as a 'precaution'.
However, it was later established that this was a hoax and that there was no threat to anybody in the school.
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