TWO school governors ousted from a Gwent primary school have vowed to take their fight for justice to the National Assembly.

Dr Graham Wilson and Geoff Lee were removed from the board of governors at Clytha Primary School, Newport, last July after head teacher Ann Picton (pictured) made allegations against them, including accusations of aggression and hostility.

Last week the Argus reported how two new governors had been appointed to replace Dr Wilson and Mr Lee.

The two were voted off the board of governors by Newport council after they refused to listen to the school's grievance panel, which recommended they should go. But they claimed it was difficult to respond in detail to the panel because neither had been present because of work commitments.

Now the two men are taking their case to the National Assembly. They have asked Rosemary Butler, AM for Newport West, to pass the details of their case to the minister for education, Jane Davidson.

Dr Wilson said: "We will pursue this as far as our resources allow. Since last July, not a lot has moved."

The two men do not want to be reinstated to the board of governors but want to clear their names, he said. Dr Wilson said he was hoping to obtain an apology from Newport council along with an acceptance that the other governors had behaved unfairly. He also claimed that the council had not formally told him and his former colleague that they were no longer governors of the school.

"We are annoyed, but it is only a small annoyance on top of a larger annoyance that we felt about the whole thing," said Dr Wilson.

He claimed that although a formal complaint letter sent to the council on December 7 had been acknowledged, no proper response had been received.

A spokesman for Rosemary Butler said the AM had spoken to Jane Davidson. She had advised that if the men wrote to Elizabeth Taylor, head of schools management at the Assembly, setting out their complaints, she would arrange for the matter to be considered.