Pupils send festive message (From Barry And District News)

Pupils send festive message

A BARRY primary school pupil has taken top prize in a Vale of Glamorgan Council competition to design a poster with the annual Christmas anti drink-drive campaign

The competition to help discourage motorists from drinking and driving while celebrating the festive season was organised locally by the Council Road Safety Team in conjunction with Road Safety Wales.

The winning poster by Georgia Craig, aged 10, from Colcot School, was based on the message, "The Car Doesn't Kill People, You Do," and her entry was also judged as runner-up (junior) for the South Wales area in an all-Wales competition.

Georgia's colourful poster earned her a specially-framed certificate and 50 in spending money - just in time for Christmas - and these were presented to her at the launch of the annual campaign by Tamsin Dunwoody, AM, the Welsh Assembly's Deputy Minister for Economic Development and Transport.

The standard of entries was, as always, very high in the Vale, with the judging panel from the Road Safety Team agonising for hours over picking a winner from the many primary schools who submitted entries.

Vale Cabinet Member for Planning and Transportation and Deputy Leader of the Council, Cllr Tony Williams, said: "It is the children who come up with such good ideas and powerful messages in their creative artwork which makes this competition so worthwhile.

"If just one life is saved this Christmas from the drink-drive campaign, all the children's efforts will have been worth it."