Brierfield Mill will not be a school

THE plans to turn Brierfield Mill at Burnley on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal into a school solely for Islamic girls is unlikely to go ahead.

The proposed boarding school for 5,000 Islamic girls has created so much controversy in the town, with protests and a petition that the charity behind the scheme is having second thoughts, Alan Tilbury informs us.

The plans now are to turn the mill into some kind of sports centre, but for the entire community not just for the single religion.

However, a fund raising scheme has been launched to buy the sprawling site,  estimated at £1 million, that was once the home of Smith and Nephew company.