read yesterday that the future of hebden green is ‘up for review’. I am very fond of the place, as many of my closest friends are there – both staff and students.

Now it’s being ‘reviewed’ by bureaucrats with smart suits and able bodies. how can they possibly fathom what such a place means? they don’t see it as those who study or work there do? do they go to students funerals, or stretch tight tendons? have they sat on those hillocks behind school and seen, at one and the same time, the tragedy and beauty of that place?

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