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Manics' school threatened with closure
disnews by DiS News September 19th, 2005
The Mirror has reported that Oakdale Comprehensive School in Blackwood, the meeting place of the Manic Street Preachers, will close due to falling pupil numbers.

The band, obviously displeased with the news, is to fight to save their formative home. Bassist Nicky Wire is to work with his poet brother Patrick Jones in an attempt to stop the closure.

"We're very sad that this school is earmarked for closure," said Wire.



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