TIle Hill Wood School could be forced to make job cuts after a new free school was given the go-ahead in the same area.

The revelation came during a public Coventry council meeting with Labour Coun David Kershaw, cabinet member for education, to discuss a 446-signature petition against Finham Park II which is scheduled to open in September.

Roger Moore, chair of governors at Tile Hill Wood - the only all girls comprehensive in the city, told the meeting Finham Park II had badly hurt the amount of pupils due to start at his school this academic year.

Finham Park II can accommodate 800 students, including 600 11 to 16-year-olds, and Mr Moore said admissions at Westwood Academy and Woodlands Academy had also been badly hit by the arrival of a new school.

Mr Moore said: We have a 237 income capacity at Tile Hill Wood, the number of pupils enrolled last year was 169.

Next year we are looking at 133 children. Thats the equivalent of three-and-a-half classes and means there is the potential for us to have to make teachers redundant.

Mr Moore said there was no demand for the extra school places and suggested Finham Park II meant the three other schools in the area faced the realistic threat of closure.

He said: There is potential for schools to close. Its not like closing a business, you cant pick which school closes. If a school closes the childrens education slowly dies.

Mr Moore also criticised Coun Kershaw for correspondence with the Secretary of State for Education, which he said verged on a declaration of interest and was seen to be supportive of Finham Park II.

He said: Why did you make personal comments, as a cabinet member and somebody respected in education, that endorsed something which is going to crucify us?

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Pediatric patients at Chris Evert Children's Hospital recently joined the wives of Miami Dolphins players, coaches, alumni and executives to paint rooms' ceilings in bright, cheery colors.

The beautification project was described as "therapeutic" by Kasey Castro and Caitlin Harrison, event organizers and child care specialists at the Fort Lauderdale hospital. About 20 pediatric patients worked with 11 Dolphins wives to paint ceiling tiles in an eighth-floor patient playroom, a general pediatrics patient room, and an outpatient playroom for hematology/oncology patients.

"The rooms are now more colorful with bright, kid-friendly colors," Castro said. "The children were able to use their creativity in a kind of therapeutic activity."

"Sometimes being in a hospital can be monotonous and get you down. The children had a great time getting out of their rooms, and it gave them something to look forward to," Harrison said.

The project also helped raise awareness of a large initiative that will soon begin, said Andria Nolan, director of major gifts.

Plans call for work to begin this summer on a $52 million renovation project. When completed by 2019, all of the semi-private patient rooms will be private by utilizing the remainder of the seventh and eighth floors to allow for patients' families to visit and stay overnight. It also will include improvements to the pediatric intensive care unit, the neonatal intensive care unit, the general pediatric department, and the hematology/oncology wing, Nolan said.

"The Dolphins wives reached out to us to be involved, and it was a great opportunity for us to talk about the capital campaign," she said.

Sabrina Goldstein, 17, a hematology/oncology patient receiving chemotherapy and other cancer treatment, was quick to pick up a paintbrush to participate in the project. Goldstein, who recently completed a summer learning project at the Rhode Island School of Design, painted one ceiling tile with an image of a bountiful garden and a sun-streaked sky.

"I love to paint; art is my passion. Working on the project made me feel nice, and I imagine it will make other kids feel better," she said.

Her parents, Luis Goldstein and Edie Levine, agreed.

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For much of Tuesday, the basement of the William Penn Smoke Shop in East Liberty looked like a scene from disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure.

A broken sprinkler system in a neighboring building flooded the convenience store's storage area with up to 4 feet of water.

Cigarette cartons and crates of soda were swept up in the fast-moving tide.

Store owner Prakash Maniyar worked feverishly to relocate inventory to higher ground but salvaged only a few packages of tortilla chips.

In all, more than $7,000 of Maniyar's merchandise was ruined, along with business records he kept in an office in the basement.

Once the water started rising, it came very fast, he said Wednesday.

Officials say the flooding began in a vacant building on North Highland Avenue and spilled into the basements of at least three nearby businesses. Fire crews pumped more than 1 million gallons of water from the stores.

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A Hawke's Bay backpackers lodge deemed to be a lethal fire risk seven months ago remains open and is accepting guests.

The Fire Service found a raft of problems with the Farmhouse Lodge between Napier and Hastings last year, including the fact its sprinkler system and smoke alarms did not work, its fire extinguishers had not been maintained, and the stairs on an external fire escape were in a state of disrepair.

The Fire Service believed that death or injury would be likely in the event of a fire. Its investigation also discovered that the sprinkler system had previously failed during a fire and that past inspections had showed the alarm system was in a state of disrepair. Maintenance records were not available.

The two-storey former pub, which is about 130 years old, belongs to Dawson Bliss, who lives in it.

In July last year, Hastings District Council issued the lodge with two dangerous building notices and gave Bliss 10 days to fix the problems. In December, the council chose to prosecute him.

The lodge continued to take guests, and appeared to be open when The Dominion Post visited this week. Bliss, 55, appears in court later this month and could not be reached for comment.

The Fire Service said it was not able to close a building deemed to be such a major risk.

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Tens Gogglebox saw its audience slump last night despite shifting from the 9pm timeslot to 8.30pm, with the show only grabbing a metro audience of445,000 after pulling 503,000 last week.

It did out-rate Nines The Footy Show, also in the 8.30pm, timeslot which was watched by 266,000, down on last weeks 286,000 due to the absence of an NRL game.

Also on Ten, 709,000 metro viewers tuned into Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here to see American actress Maureen McCormick booted from the jungle, with the rest of the show watched by 679,000. Finals week continues to see the reality shows audience improve with the show last week watched by 614,000.

However it the main portion of the show wasstill out-rated by both Nines The Block: Triple Threat and the ABCs 7.30, with Sevens My Kitchen Rules easily winning the timeslot and the night.

The Block was watched by 680,000, while 710,000 tuned into 7.30. MKR grabbed a metro audience of 1.443m.

MKR was the most watched show across all the demographics while the eviction on Im a Celebrity was the second most-watched show amongst people aged 18-49 and 25-54.

Seven won the night with an audience share of22.7 per cent while Nine grabbed a share of18.2 per cent. Ten claimed third place with a share of 13.7 per cent as the ABC settled for a share of 11.4 per cent.

In the 9pm timeslot, SevensAmerican espionage thriller series State of Affairs boosted its audience to 400,000 after dropping to 389,000 last week.

Meanwhile on the ABC, Outback ER at 8pm was watched by573,000 and Hiding at 8.30pm had a metro audience of 367,000.

In the news battleground Nine News at 6pm pulled a metro audience of 943,000, managing to out-rate Seven news which was watched by 931,000. At 6.30pm audiences slipped for Nine News to 906,000 with audiences also dropping for Seven News which was watched by 832,000.

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