ALTHOUGH many speedy motorists might not think so, it’s good news that streets outside Bolton schools are to become 20mph zones.

This decision by Bolton Council comes after a report revealed that, of the 75 children who were casualties on local roads between 2008 and 2013, 37 were hurt while travelling to or from school.

Unfortunately, drivers do not curb their speed around schools and through busy residential streets as a matter of course. Selfish motorists who feel they can drive however they want, wherever they want, will always need the law to slow them down.

They also insist on parking badly and dangerously around schools - ridiculous when you consider they’re probably parents, but don’t get me started on that one.

The Council is doing what it can with the budget it now has and needs our support in this move in particular. We owe it to our children.