PARENTS in Wombwell are furious after being told that their children cannot attend a primary school - three minutes' walk from where they live.

The reaction came after an education authority appeal panel told them the new 471-pupil High View primary school was 'too full' to accept any more pupils.

Kerry Templeton, of Rose Grove, said: "It's not the fact that the school is full that angers us. It is the fact that it is full of children who live farther away than we do.

"I know of two who have been accepted into the school who are from Birdwell."

Miss Templeton has now been offered a place at Kings Oak Primary, Wombwell, a mile and a half away. Miss Danni Myers, of Wainwright Place, said: "I am furious that people who come from Darfield and Kingsway, right next to Kings Oak, have been offered a place over him. "I have to deal with all the traffic from the school everyday of the week, yet now I will be walking past parents driving to High View while I walk my son to the other side of Wombwell." When questioned on this the education authority said that any parents who applied to their school of preference had the same right as anyone else, whatever the location. The council press office were not available for comment because of the Unison strikes.