A Hindu group has failed in its bid to open a new free school in Leicester.The Avanti Schools Trust had applied to the Department for Education (DfE) to create a new school to educate pupils from four to 16.But the trust says that the application has been turned down by the department on the basis that the shortage of school places in the city is not severe enough to warrant another school.The trust, which already runs the Krishna Avanti Primary, in Evington, Leicester, which opened in 2011,...
