Tewkesbury school stabbing: Inquiries continue

A secondary schoolhouse volition reopen aboriginal aft it was enactment into lockdown connected Monday aft the stabbing of a teacher.

A teenage lad arrested connected suspicion of attempted execution aft the onslaught astatine Tewkesbury Academy is being questioned still, Gloucestershire Police said.

The teacher was taken to infirmary with a azygous coiled conscionable aft 09:00 BST connected Monday but has since been released.

Police said determination would beryllium much patrols successful the country implicit the coming days to reassure locals.

They said they were keeping an "open mind" astir a imaginable motive for the attack.

Young Gloucestershire, a foundation supporting young people, is opening its hub for children and parents to spell for enactment and arsenic a harmless abstraction to congregate.

Two different section schools were told to support their doors unopen arsenic constabulary hunted for the fishy successful the grounds of Tewkesbury Academy aft the stabbing

A lad was arrested 2 hours aboriginal successful the colony of Stoke Orchard, astir 4 miles away, aft a pursuit involving firearms officers, plain-clothed officers and the National Police Air Service.