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VILLAGERS battling to save their old school from what they regard as a ‘Church of England enforced fundraising sale’ are preparing to take their fight to Parliament. Rathmell School Trustees are working with key figures in the House of Lords and House of Commons after it emerged that the CofE has quietly submitted a change of use plan to civil servants. The same move, lodged with the Department for Education in Whitehall, derailed plans to save neighbouring Horton in Ribblesdale school. But the Diocese of Leeds says it has written to the trustees over its own concerns that ‘some of the trustees are no longer acting in line with the charitable objects of the trust or Charity Commission guidance’.