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Podcast: Dad calls for better education on knives after boy threatened at primary school
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There are calls for younger children to be better educated on the danger of knives after an eight-year-old boy was threatened in Margate.
He was in the canteen at Cliftonville Primary School when another pupil held a piece of cutlery to his throat.
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