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December 16, 2015

Daily Express told to publish front-page correction over story claiming English ‘starting to die out’ in British schools

By Dominic Ponsford

A front-page Daily Express story claiming that English was starting to "die out" in some British school classrooms was inaccurate, press regulator IPSO has ruled.

Jonathan Portes complained about the front-page story from 24 July, headlined “311 languages spoken in our schools”. The sub headline read: "Special investigation: classrooms where English is starting to die out."

The online version said: “311 languages [are] spoken in our schools as English starts to die out”.

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