Lesley Bello took the appeal option when her daughter Lydia was refused a place at Milton Road Junior School in Cambridge on the grounds that the family lived a quarter of a mile outside the catchment area, in spite of the fact that Lydia had attended Milton Road InfantSchool on the same site.
Clare Cook, headteacher at Bignold Infant and Nursery School in Norwich decided to keep theschool open on Monday, but said the decision was not an easy one.