Secretary of State for Education Damian Hinds visits Palgrave and experiences difficulties faced by the primary school

The minister's visit has boosted hopes for a new, fit-for-purpose building, which has been proposed by MP Dr Dan Poulter.

Palgrave is housed in a traditional school building with no land surrounding it, which leaves the school unable to grow in its current site.

Read this week's Diss Express to find out what the Secretary of State had to say and how Suffolk County Council responded to the school's bid to expand.