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Lancashire County Council will stop supplying the supply of halal meat from un-stunned animals to 27 schools in the new year.
This afternoon's full meeting of the authority voted decisively in favour of the ban, proposed by its leader Cllr Geoff Driver, by 49 to 23 with nine abstentions.
It will affect 12,000 Muslim pupils in the 27 schools in Blackburn, Nelson, Burnley, Rawtenstall, Hyndburn and Preston.
Abdul Hamid Qureshi, chief executive of the Lancashire Council of Mosques, said: "This decision is hugely disappointing."