Irish Sunday Mirror

Elite school expels 7 over hippy crack

- BY ALAN SELBY

Laughing gas SEVEN pupils have been expelled from a top boarding school for inhaling balloons of deadly “hippy crack” laughing gas.

They were caught at €40,000-a-year Oundle School when a housemaste­r’s wife heard them giggling.

One of the expelled fifthforme­rs is said to have previously been caught having sex in a sports hall.

The nitrous oxide is bought online but illegal to sell for human consumptio­n. Thirty deaths have been linked to it since 1993. The school in Oundle, Northants, has produced three Victoria Cross military heroes.

Five of the pupils will be allowed to finish exams before being expelled this year, which one parent said sets a poor precedent. The undertaker­s

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