A BLAZE-HIT school is rising like a phoenix from the ashes.
The fire, at Grange Primary School, Hartlepool, two years ago, was sparked by a wiring fault. It destroyed eight classrooms, the junior school hall, a classroom for children with learning difficulties and a community wing.
Its 200 pupils had to transfer to cramped, temporary classes.
Rebuilding work, which started in the summer, should be completed by next spring.
The building will include a section for special needs children, and an early years centre housing twice the number of nursery children as before.
A council spokesman said: "The work is going ahead as planned and winter weather permitting, we will have the kids back in the school by April next year."
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