Chelmsford's two selective schools will stop taking so many children from outside the county because they are "too tired" for lessons.

King Edward VI Grammar School and Chelmsford County High School for Girls are instead proposing to award 80 per cent of its places to children who live within a 12.5 mile radius of the Duke Street war memorial.

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