A school was ordered to pay nearly £20,000 in fines and legal costs yesterday after a pupil lost all but two of her fingers in an art lesson.The penalty was increased on the Giles foundation school in Boston, Lincolnshire, because staff failed to report the "catastrophic" incident, involving plaster of paris, to the Health and Safety Executive.Boston magistrates heard the schoolgirl, whose identity has not been revealed, was one of a group on a BTec course who were making sculptures ofSource: British Blogs RSS Feed
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