More than half of a school in South Yorkshire has been destroyed by a large fire which broke out in the early hours.
Around 60 firefighters tackled the blaze at Campsmount Technology College in Norton near Doncaster. Only the gymnasium, library and a number of classrooms were left intact.
The school in now closed. An investigation into the cause of the fire is underway.
Richard Chandler, area manager for South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue, told BBC News that the fire spread rapidly through a large part of the school. “We were looking at flames up to about 100ft into the air, a thick black smoke plume probably rose up to 300ft into the air.
“There’s an awful lot of twisted metal, there’s an awful lot of ruined classroom equipment and probably across quite a large part of the site, there’s very little apart from the steel structure that stands.”
