A recruitment freeze on lollipop crossing patrol staff is forcing young children at a rural school into a “dangerous” crossing where a child was killed previously, a principal has warned.
Hezlett Primary School just outside Castlerock, Co Derry, sits beside a long, straight stretch of the Mussendun Road where principal Donna Winters said cars often travel around 60mph.
And with a bus stop on the far side of the road from the school, every day children are forced to make the crossing to get to their classrooms.
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