PARENT power seems to have won the day again in Horsforth.

Just weeks after angry parents forced Education Leeds to reconsider its admissions policy in light of their difficulties in getting their youngsters into Horsforth School, parents from St Mary's and Broadgate Lane primary schools have managed to get their city councillors out to the site where a pupil was knocked down. They were joined by two head teachers, school governors and a senior highways official from the city council.

They are duly concerned about road safety down busy Broadgate Lane, where both schools are based, and had launched a petition and campaign. A pupil was seriously injured in an accident there earlier this year.

Now the city council has promised to take action - and is looking at introducing some measures to slow traffic. You would have to go a long way to find a better example of people power and these last months have shown one thing - Horsforth parents are a determined bunch.

WHAT a great idea from teachers at Otley's Prince Henry's Grammar School to take everyone off to a theme park for the day.

The thought of more than 800 teenagers being taken to Lightwater Valley may well not be everyone's first choice of an easy day. But all credit to the teachers who were keen to give the hard working students something more than just a pat on the back.

It's not going to be easy. In fact, fraught it may well be, but one thing's for certain. Every pupil will remember it as one of the special things their school bothered to do.

Well done Prince Henry's.