Pressure from an influx of children from East European immigrants has forced a British council to draw up plans to build four new primary schools, the Daily Mail reported.

Bradford council in West Yorkshire, where nearly 5,000 workers arrived last year, is one of many local authorities experiencing a shortfall of places in inner-city areas.

Bradford has the second highest birth rate of any part of Britain outside London, and coming on top of that, immigration has left its school system struggling, the report says.

According to data, cited by the Daily Mail, at least 27,000 school-aged youngsters have arrived with their parents in the UK since ten countries - including Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic - joined the EU on May 1, 2004.

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