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Teachers 'find drugs and weapons'

A growing number of pupils are taking offensive weapons and drugs into a hard core of schools in troubled areas, research suggests.
The proportion of teachers finding weapons on pupils on a weekly basis had almost quadrupled from 2001 to 2008.
Warwick University, interviewing 1,500 teachers for the National Union of Teachers, found those finding drugs on pupils weekly had doubled.
The government said the majority of schools were safe places.
Overall, the share of teachers who had never found drugs or weapons on pupils has grown.
But one in four said they had found an offensive weapon and one in five said they had found pupils possessing drugs.
A staggering one in 10 teachers had discovered children dealing in drugs.

By Hannah Goff BBC News at the NUT conference, Manchester