Pupils to Use Field for First Time in Five Years As Lead Levels in Soil Are Tackled ; for the Past Five Years, Pupils Have Not Been Able to Set Foot On the Playing Field at Becket Primary School. But the School Hopes That Is About to Change After the City Council Agreed to Pay for Work to Get Rid of Lead Contamination On the Land This Summer. Education Correspondent Zena Hawley Reports.

Derby Evening Telegraph › May 19, 2010

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TWO World Cup competitions - 2006 and 2010 - will have come and gone by the time pupils from Becket Primary will once again be able to have a kick around on their playing field.

With the latest tournament starting next month, many schools will experience a surge in the number of girls and boys wanting to play football.

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Pupils to Use Field for First Time in Five Years As Lead Levels in Soil Are Tackled ; for the Past Five Years, Pupils Have Not Been Able to Set Foot On the Playing Field at Becket Primary School. But the School Hopes That Is About to Change After the City Council Agreed to Pay for Work to Get Rid of Lead Contamination On the Land This Summer. Education Correspondent Zena Hawley Reports.

But those at Becket Primary will have to wait a bit longer - probably until the autumn - to be able to play games once again on the field at the Monk Street school.

Five years after the school's playing fields were taken out of use because of lead contamination, Derby City Council is going to make it safe.

The work will cost around Pounds 425,000 - Pounds 92,000 of which has to be found by the school itself. More than Pounds 40,000...

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