A TEACHER chased off a man who assaulted a pupil in a classroom at Sharples High School today.

The 21-year-old man is belived to have entered the school in Hill Cot Road, Bolton, shortly before 11am looking for a former girlfriend. He grabbed the girl around the neck but was chased by a teacher. He escaped in a blue transit van.

The girl is not thought to have been seriously injured.

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