More than 100 parents, staff and children marched from Bright Startnursery to a full council meeting on 18 December to debate the council'splan to close the nursery and present the petition.
The Conservative-led council is proposing closing the nursery in Aprilto save 87,000 a year (News, 10 November). Parents and staff haveboth submitted business cases with plans showing how the nursery couldbe profitable.
The nursery has the support of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Greencouncillors, who backed a motion by Green councillor Lizzie Deane tostop the consultation about closure and form a working group to look athow the nursery could be kept open and be sustainable.
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