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Miriam O'Reilly investigates the government's school building programme and hears how unneccessarily complicated 'green features' are being built into some new schools.

Miriam O'Reilly investigates the government's school building programme. She hears that unneccessarily complicated 'green features' are being built into some new schools, hampering teachers from getting on with the job of teaching and in some cases causing schools to use up to three times more energy than ones that were built ten, 20 and even 100 years ago.

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Thu 29 Jan 200913:30
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