IN response to Mike Davis's letter (Your Letters, October 3), I would like to make a few comments of my own.

While a couple of strips of red tarmac and replacing orange lights with new orange lights have improv-ed awareness of the presence of the school to a minor degree, they do not achieve the same goal as a proper crossing.

Great Malvern Primary is a large primary school and Pickersleigh Road is a busy main road carrying lorries as well as traffic to the science park.

At present the headteacher is acting as a lollipop man as and when he can, which means sometimes parents and children have to cross the road unaided. The cars do not slow down when they see a parent with children trying to cross - they have on occasion also ignored the lollipop man.

A lollipop man is only on duty for a short time each morning and afternoon. Outside his hours many other people have to cross Pickersleigh Road: children arriving at school before 8.45am or after 9am; nursery children crossing at 11.30am and 1pm; children attending after school clubs at 4.30pm; Chase children prior to 8.45am and after 3.45pm; and residents wishing to get to Barnards Green.

I do not want my grandchildren or any other children to be injured due to the lack of a crossing where one is so desperately needed.

MRS S J STANLEY, Harbinger Avenue, Malvern.