Education Minister Dolores Cristina this evening categorically denied rumours that St Paul's Bay primary school - or any other state school in Malta or Gozo, for that matter - would be closed down to house illegal immigrants.

Mrs Cristina was answering a parliamentary question by Nationalist MP Censu Galea.

Mrs Cristina said that she was aware that such rumours were doing the rounds, even with regards to Senglea school and schools in other localities, but there was no truth in them.

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