A 140-year-old primary school has sparked controversy by planning to change its name because of the rise in local shootings. Guns Village Primary School, which dates back to 1878, was named after ...

However many parents fought against the change, including with a petition signed by more than 500 people, and they are furious that it will become Hanbury Primary from September 2017. Lucy ...

head teacher Dawn Cooper said A school called Guns Village, named after its historical links with the gun manufacturing trade, is to change its name. The primary school in West Bromwich dates back ...

GUNS Village Primary School in West Bromwich has announced shock plans to change its name - after rocketing numbers of shootings in the region. Headteacher Dawn Cooper has written to parents ...

A Black Country school wants to remove the word guns from its title - but the plan has upset some parents. Guns Village Primary, in West Bromwich, dates back to 1878 and the name is thought to ...

The governors of a primary school in the Midlands have been criticised because they want to change its name from Guns Village due to a rise in shootings in the area. The school has had its name ...

For 140 years the school has taken the name Guns Village because of the area's historic links to the production of gun components. In a recent letter to parents, headteacher Dawn Cooper informed ...

Kelly Plaxon, who set up the petition, wrote online: "We, the undersigned who are parents of current pupils at Guns Village Primary School, past pupils and members of the local community 'strongly ...

A petition against the change attracted several hundred signatures. Guns Village School: New name shot down Guns Village Primary School ...