Only baptised can travel free

16th May 2003, 1:00am

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Only baptised can travel free

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A 10-year old girl in Greater Merseyside has been denied a free bus pass because she has not been baptised. Stockport council ruled that Jade Lamb did not qualify for free transport to Harrytown RC school because there was a closer non-religious school she could have attended instead.

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