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Education News: Politics - BNP set to launch school campaign

The British National Party is to mount a UK-wide propaganda campaign targeting pupils outside school gates.

The campaign, called Project School Yard, has already been used byneo-Nazis in the US and focuses on handing out free CDs by far rightmusicians outside school gates.

Details of the campaign are set to be revealed on 6 February on aChannel Five documentary called Nazi Hate Rock: A MacintyreInvestigation, which examines how the BNP is looking to influence youngpeople by launching its own record label.

A National Union of Teachers' spokeswoman said that although the BNP canlegally hand out CDs and other propaganda outside school, police havethe power to move them on or arrest them if they are causing adisturbance or inciting racial hatred.

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