A teenage boy who was left alone upstairs during a school fire has taken his campaign for stronger safety rules for disabled students to Parliament. Lucas Vezza-O’Brien has cerebral palsy and says he was “terrified” when smoke began to fill the corridor on the first floor of his school in Hyde, Greater Manchester, in November 2024.
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