Angry parents have raised a 150-name petition to campaign for a crisis-hit children's nursery to be reopened.

Child care at Wrose Community Centre was stopped in July when the management committee suffered a vote of no confidence.

Since then, the trustees have refused to reopen the nursery, despite all other user groups being allowed to use the centre.

Now parents are set to present their petition to the trustees and are considering holding a demonstration in a last-ditch attempt to get child care reintroduced.

Geoff Percival, one of the trustees, said there was no way the nursery could reopen on the same basis as before because it had been losing money - a point disputed by parents.

He said: "I think there will be child care in the future but not on the same basis as it has been for the last three or four months. It was losing money to such a great extent that it would not have lasted past October because there would have been no money to continue.

"It was a decision that had to be taken and could not wait because, if things had continued, there would not be a community association any more. It's a difficult situation."

Mr Percival said independent consultants were carrying out a full report on all aspects of the running of the community centre.

The report will then be presented to members at a general meeting to reveal exactly what has happened, and what needs to be done to recover the situation. A new management committee will then be elected.

Sara Ainge, whose two-year-old son used to attend the nursery, said parents were still angry at what had happened.

"The fact 150 people have signed a petition shows the strength of feeling in the community," she said.

Petition organiser Vicky Harvey has also written to the trustees. She argued that the nursery would be financially viable if it was allowed to operate and that staff were available to work.

The entire centre will soon close for three weeks while a new floor is laid to replace the laminate surface which buckled and bent in the hot weather this summer.

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