Schoolchildren campaigning to make roads outside their school safer have persuaded officials to try out a solution.

Pupils from Kenmore Park Infant and Nursery School, in Moorhouse Road, Queensbury, started a two-part campaign, giving out leaflets and taking to the streets with banners to petition the council to install a one-way road system outside the school.

Teachers, staff, pupils and parents wrote to Harrow Council explaining that both Moorhouse Road and Warneford Road can be unsafe, with cars blocking each other in or driving dangerously - often resulting in children being late to class.

Now, the school has received a letter from the council to congratulate the children on their interest in road safety and let them know a trial one-way system will be introduced in Warneford Road later this year.

The letter said: “It is very disappointing to hear about the bad experiences you have all been having with crossing the roads around your school.

“The safety of children is very important to Harrow council and we would like to try to help improve things for you.

“All the schools in Harrow and throughout the rest of the country experience similar problems at the start and the end of the school day.

“Please be assured that Harrow council does try to do as much as possible to improve road safety around all of the borough’s schools.”

The council has also put in extra double yellow lines along the road.