BOOZED-UP POSH GIRLS SUSPENDED BY SCHOOL; EXCLUSIVE Pupil taken to hospital.

Byline: By Brian McCartney

TWO 15-year-old girls at a posh boarding school were so drunk that staff had to call an ambulance.

One of the girls from Glenalmond College was taken to hospital and kept for several hours.

Yesterday, school bursar Keith Montgomery revealed that four pupils had been suspended over the scandal.

Police were informed of the drunken escapade at the school near Methven, Perthshire, just after 7pm last Thursday.

Mr Montgomery said: "Two 15-year-old girls were treated for the effects of alcohol.

"The ambulance service was called to our own medical centre but it was decided that our staff would monitor the pupils."

The bursar added: "Subsequently, one of the girls went to Perth Royal Infirmary as a precaution measure. She was released and brought back to the college's medical centre by 2.30am on March 7.

"Both girls are now fine and, although intoxicated, were not in danger.

"These two girls and two other pupils, who had brought the alcohol into the college, have been suspended."

Mr Montgomery said the girls would be suspended for a week-and-a-half in a bid to strike a balance between discipline and exam work.

Parents pay up to pounds 22,545 to send their children to Glenalmond, where the curriculum includes hunting, shooting and fishing.

It is one of Scotland's leading co-educational independent schools for boys and girls aged 12-18.

The school, which is set in 300 acres, has places for 36 boys and 28 girls among its day pupils and 182 male and 145 female boarders.

CAPTION(S):

EXPENSIVE: Glenalmond charge up to pounds 22,545 a year