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| Three schools in the West Midlands have been evacuated after receiving bomb scare calls. | |
| Police said all pupils at Holly Lodge, Oldbury Academy and Bristnall Hall in Sandwell were safe and the council stressed there was "no reason to panic". | |
| The schools received the threats between 09:00 GMT and 09:30. | |
| Leasowes High School in Halesowen was also affected, West Midlands Police said. | |
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| Sandwell Council leader Darren Cooper said: "We've had a bomb alert in three Sandwell schools... we don't know at this stage where the tip came from." | Sandwell Council leader Darren Cooper said: "We've had a bomb alert in three Sandwell schools... we don't know at this stage where the tip came from." |
| There was no suggestion of any other threat to other schools in Sandwell, the authority said. | |
| A parent called Steve, who has a son and daughter at Oldbury Academy, told BBC WM the children were told by their teachers to evacuate. | |
| "They did not know what was going on, they had no information off the teachers," he said. | |
| "They were just scared, because they didn't know exactly what was going on." | |
| Two Oldbury Academy pupils told BBC WM that pupils and teachers were "panicking". | |
| A teacher at the school, who did not want to be named, said she was "shaking" as she told children to leave the school. | |
| A 15-year-old student added: "A few people were running down the street, running away from the school," |