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Stewart Dimmock, a truck driver from Dover, who works part-time on a school board has won a partial victory in his battle to ban Al Gore's film on climate change from being shown in schools.

The former U.S. Vice President's Oscar-winning documentary can be shown in English schools, a judge said Tuesday, even though he believes it promotes partisan political views.

Mr Dimmock said he was fighting to have his children to be educated in an environment "free from bias and political spin."

Educational authorities are making Gore's documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth," available to all English secondary schools, a decision he challenged in court calling the film inaccurate and biased.

High Court Judge Michael Burton said Gore's movie could be shown if the written guidance for teachers bundled with the program was changed to prevent Gore's views from being promoted to children.

Yesterday (2 October), the government said it was rewriting its advice.

"With the guidance as now amended, it will not be unlawful for the film to be shown," Burton said.

The judge said, however, that he felt the film promoted "partisan political views." He did not elaborate.

Burton's comments, following a four-day hearing, were not an official ruling and he said a final judgment would probably be announced next week.

He said he decided to indicate what his decision would be because he felt schools needed to know in what circumstances they can show the film. During the case, schools were not required to stop showing the documentary.