Children pulled out of schools built on toxic landfill site after pupils test positive for high levels of arsenic

Concerned parents are pulling their children out of schools in Scotland and teachers are expected to strike after several pupils showed up to six times higher levels of arsenic in their blood.

It comes after four teachers had been diagnosed with a rare bladder cancer and another pupil had been removed from one of the schools after more than a year of sickness.

Calls to close two schools pending investigation, in North Lanarkshire, built on a toxic landfill site are growing after a boy went blind and tests revealed levels of arsenic in his system three times that of normal levels.

Autistic first-year pupil Tommi Morgan lost his eyesight just three months after starting at Buchanan High in Scotland.


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