Evacuation
Headline: Rehearsal for mass evacuation.
A full-scale rehearsal of evacuation plans took place throughout the country today. Nine hundred schools in London and those from about 30 other vulnerable areas were involved.
Many secondary school children, whose term does not begin for another two weeks, were away on holiday and so missed the rehearsal, since returning home especially for it was not thought necessary by the Board of Education.
For those at elementary schools, where the autumn term was due to start tomorrow, work began one day early - with what most of them saw as a great adventure.
A statement after the rehearsal said that it had involved a school population of over a million children throughout the country and had been a marked success.
Published: 2001-09-01
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