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A team of detectives is interviewing the classmates of a 14-year-old boy who suffered serious injuries in an incident at a school in Mansfield. | A team of detectives is interviewing the classmates of a 14-year-old boy who suffered serious injuries in an incident at a school in Mansfield. |
Science teacher Peter Harvey, 49, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after pupil Jack Waterhouse was injured and two other pupils hurt. | Science teacher Peter Harvey, 49, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after pupil Jack Waterhouse was injured and two other pupils hurt. |
Jack is said to be in a serious but stable condition after the incident at All Saints' Roman Catholic School. | Jack is said to be in a serious but stable condition after the incident at All Saints' Roman Catholic School. |
A leafleting campaign supporting Mr Harvey is planned outside the school. | A leafleting campaign supporting Mr Harvey is planned outside the school. |
Police said the incident took place at the school in Broomhill Lane on Wednesday, and a team of officers have been talking to pupils since Thursday. | |
Mr Harvey is being held in police custody. | |
Detectives have been granted extra time, until 2015 BST on Friday, in which to question him. | |
Jack was initially taken to King's Mill Hospital but was transferred to Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) in Nottingham, where his condition was described as serious but stable on Friday morning. | |
All Saints' School, which opened in 1974, has 1,170 pupils, including a sixth form of 200, and a teaching staff of more than 70. | |
The school, a specialist performing arts college since 2002, describes itself on its website as, "a lively, Catholic comprehensive school with a very special, warm ethos which is recognised by all who visit". |