Bus service plea to NEELB
The headmaster of a north Antrim primary school has pleaded with the education authorities to provide a bus service for a mother of three who faces a daily nightmare when taking her children on a three-mile round trip on foot to school.
Mr David Dunlop from Armoy Primary School has re-doubled his efforts in the wake of the recent Cloughmills tragedy, which claimed the life of eight-year-old Adam Gilmour. In a letter to authorities Mr Dunlop outlined the family’s plight “following an unsatisfactory response to two phone calls which I have logged with your department”.
The mother, who lives in a nearby housing estate and did not want to be named, has admitted that twice daily she is forced to negotiate dangerous bends, along the Gracehill Road, whilst watching her two young boys and wheeling a baby in a buggy. And she told the Times she’s so terrified something might happen, that she is threatening to take her children out of school for their safety.