Get home early. Gange Hill’s closing its doors forever tonight, which makes you wonder if there was ever a point in moving it up North in the first place. Phil Redmond has already admitted today that ‘it’s time to hang up its mortar board’ after coming to the conclusion that kids lives today no longer reflect challenging issues created by the programme. It’s a shame as the tea-time show used to bring to light educational concerns such as drugs in the school corridors, highlighted by this clip of Kevin Jenkins dropping acid before Maths:
Leading to the ever popular ‘Just say No!’ campaign, Grange Hill has certainly left its mark on society, so tune in tonight at 4:35pm to say farewell as Mark Fowler from Eastenders finds an unexploded bomb under the school disco (not a word of this is a lie!).
