Former teacher calls for valuable art to be returned for pupils

Paintings by Mary Fedden, worth up to £40,000, were removed by council during financial scandal and handed to a galleryAn extraordinary dispute over three valuable paintings given to a state school by an influential British artist and then confiscated by a London local authority has led to fresh calls for the works to be returned for the schoolchildren.The three paintings, two still-lifes and a portrait of a cat, are by the late Mary Fedden, the first woman tutor at the Royal College of Ar