Terrified pupils were locked in a Birmingham school and plunged into darkness as West Midlands Police probed reports of a 'boy with knife' outside.

Scared children were kept in lockdown for almost an hour amid "mad panic" at Green Meadow Primary School in Selly Oak , yesterday afternoon, Wednesday, September 17.

Lights were turned off at the school site as officers rushed to the scene on Green Meadow Road at around 3pm.

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Police said they received a report of a teenage boy with a knife outside the school, which is part of the Excelsior Mult

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