Parents of pupils at a Folkestone School are reeling after receiving letters by private courier telling them their children's school had closed.

The fee paying Westbrook House Preparatory School in Folkestone had around 100 pupils who now have no school to go to in September.

Information packs were sent with the letters to parents about the private Dover College, where places are being promised together with a free bus from Westbrook House to Dover.

The school was for children aged between 2 and 11, with the fees of nearly £3,000 a term for pupils, aged 10 and 11.

Former Saga chairman Roger De Haan was the chairman of governors.