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Speed camera ca after cat is killed

... road drivers tend to fly down the hill, despite road measures in place. “It may only be a cat but next time it could be a child killed on the road.” Spratton Road is currently restricted to 30mph and has sections where the two lanes narrow to one to slow ...

Published: Thursday 24 May 2001
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 203 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

ROAD Safety Week 2000, organised by the charity Brake this week, is important to us all. Every week, 70 people

... number are seriously Injured on UK roads and every day, 118 chiidren are Injured. One child Is killed every two days. This means that the UK has one of the highest child pedestrian death rates in Europe. ET reporter Lorrie Rickett has been finding out more ...

olice tip-off in hunt for pet-killing dogs

... dogs. She said: “Is there going to be a child killed before they get these dogs?” The death toll includes rabbits and guinea pigs killed in the Clarence Road, Elizabeth Street area. Last month two rabbits were killed after their hutch was ripped apart in ...

Published: Tuesday 08 October 2002
Newspaper: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 914 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

‘Stop these joyriders before a child dies’

... ‘Stop these joyriders before a child dies’ RESIDENTS believe a child could be killed unless joyriders as young as 14 are stopped. People living in the Highfield Road area of the Highfields estate in Kettering say speed is the big problem. .They are also ...

Call to redevelop ‘danger’ factory

... Call to redevelop ‘danger’ factory A CHILD wiill be killed at an abandoned Desborough factory unless steps are taken to redevelop it. The warning comes from Desborough Town Council, which has been inundated with calls about youngsters using the former ...

Rat-runs prompt child tragedy fears

... Rat-runs prompt child tragedy fears ANGRY residents who live in ratruns created by Kettering’'s new traffic system fear a child could be killed because of the large amount of traffic. Tomorrow Kettering Town Centre Forum is to discuss a report which claims ...

COUNCIL AGREE TO TAGKLE PROBLEMS OF UNOFFIGIAL RAGE TRACK

... should be asked to monitor the noise nuisance problem at Craigyhill. “I hope we are not going to have to wait until a child is killed before we doing something about this,” she commented. Some good news was delivered by alderman John Mathews, who, although ...

Published: Thursday 24 January 2002
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 539 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Safer travel for the kids

... DEPARTMENT of Transport figures show that 74 child passengers were killed in cars in 1997, with over 17,000 sustaining injury and a recent survey by Mother and Baby magazine found that 60 per cent of child safety seats were not fitted properly. velicles ...

Published: Thursday 14 September 2000
Newspaper: Larne Times
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 307 | Page: 41 | Tags: none

Worried parents In protest over parking

... that a child could be killed because of parked cars around a Northampton school. Drivers trying to park on a roundabout next to Hunsbury Park Lower School were asked to move by parents during a protest on Monday. The campaign started after a child was nearly ...

Published: Thursday 13 April 2000
Newspaper: Northampton Mercury
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 369 | Page: 18 | Tags: none

Eglinton man to light up children’s lives

... Although it was 14 years ago it seems like yesterday that our daughter passed away. When we hear on the news about a child being killed our hearts go out to the families, even though we don't know them. We sat with our daughter at her bedside during the ...

Published: Wednesday 12 December 2001
Newspaper: Londonderry Sentinel
County: Londonderry, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 679 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

It’s people on foot who have best deal

... essential point in spinning a story is to mention “the children.” Let me therefore put a thought in your head. When a child is killed or injured on a school activity, almost inevitably the teachers take the blame on the basis of insufficient supervision ...

Published: Thursday 05 September 2002
Newspaper: Northamptonshire Evening Telegraph
County: Northamptonshire, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 760 | Page: 8 | Tags: none