RACY novel writer Leonora Rustamova has lost her fight to get back into the classroom.

The Huddersfield teacher – known as Miss Rusty – was dismissed because of a controversial internet story.

Now she has lost an appeal against that sacking.

She had insisted the novel was a way of holding the attention of difficult teenage pupils.

But governors at a Calderdale school disagreed and dismissed her from her £34,000 a year post.

Mrs Rustamova, of Salendine Nook was sacked by Calder High School in Mytholmroyd, near Hebden Bridge, after writing the “racy” novel featuring some of her students.

The teacher, 40, was at the school for 11 years and claimed it was an innovative way of getting her pupils interested in their work.

But school governors thought differently – especially when the novel appeared on internet sites and attracted national attention.

She took her case to an employment tribunal but last night heard the verdict had gone against her.

In a reserved judgement from the tribunal panel in Leeds, the teacher had her bid for reinstatement thrown out.

Mrs Rustamova was sacked for gross misconduct in 2009 after the book appeared on an internet self-publishing site.