Boy falls 20ft; ACCIDENT.A PUPIL was fighting for life in hospital last night after toppling over a handrail on a flight of stairs Noun 1. flight of stairs - a stairway (set of steps) between one floor or landing and the next flight of steps, flight staircase, stairway - a way of access (upward and downward) consisting of a set of steps at his school. The boy, thought to be aged 11, suffered critical injuries in the 20ft plunge at Pensby High School for Boys on the Wirral. His parents were keeping vigil at his beside in Alder alder (ôl`dər), name for deciduous trees and shrubs of the genus Alnus of the family Betulaceae (birch family), widely distributed, especially in mountainous and moist areas of the north temperate zone and in the Andes. Hey. One parent at the school said: "It seems like it is a terrible accident and all the children have been very upset." Wirral Borough Council said it would hold an investigation. |
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