[Gayle]

The school may be outside the zone but I'm fairly sure that the catchment area for pupils runs across the affected area. Could it not be that they simply kept all children there so that they didn't wander across to find out what was going on and find themselves in the middle of it all.

As for not allowing the parents in - they were within the school grounds, so again, not wandering around the affected area.

The driver may have known what he had in his tank, but the man in charge would need to verify this with the company. Also, do we know for certain that the driver was still walking around talking - or was he in shock or injured? Was he able to tell the man in charge of operations what he was carrying.

As for Head Teachers being high up in the chain. I'm sorry, but that's almost as ridiculous as the Queen moving to Dunsop Bridge. Teachers go into the teaching profession because they want to help children. My mother-in-law is an ex-head teacher and to suggest that she would be part of some wide spread conspiracy to kill, maim or abduct children in her charge, is ludicrous and bordering on slanderous.

With conspiracy theories I think it's too easy to see a conspiracy in everything and not take it on face value.