War of words with local residents as Bristol school's new fence vandalised View 2 Images

Less than two months after a fence was erected around one of the most controversial pieces of land in Bristol, a secondary school has sparked a new war of words after reporting that the fence has been vandalised again.

The headteacher of Cotham School said she was ‘extremely upset and frustrated’ by the ‘constant’ attacks on the fence the school has erected around its sports playing fields.

But local campaigners said that, while they do not condone vandalism to the fence around the Stoke Lodge playing fields in Stoke Bishop , they accused headteacher Jo Butler of making ‘inflammatory and misleading claims’, which they said ‘only serve to increase division between the school and the community.

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