A HEAD teacher's threat to name and shame drivers whose illegal parking endangers pupils' lives looks like being a success.

But for one grandmother its not fast enough. And now the school is investigating other ways for pupils to get to school instead of arriving by car.

Fewer cars have been reported parking illegally on the yellow zig-zag lines outside Hazlehurst Primary School, Ramsbottom since the warning issued by head Mr Stuart Birtwell.

As reported in the Bury Times, Mr Birtwell sent out a newsletter to all parents after there was nearly an accident involving a pregnant woman and her child. He said that he would compile a register of all parents seen parking illegally and then "name and shame" them, although he refused to reveal how he would do it.

One grandmother, who walks her grand-daughter to school, said: "Fewer people are parking on the yellow lines but they are still driving partly on to footpaths endangering lives. The cars just drive on to the paths, which are on a bend, without a care whether children are walking on them or not.

"There is no need for it especially as they could park safely just a little further away from the school."

Mr Birtwell is now in talks with Bury Council's travel co-ordinator to address the problem of parents dropping-off and picking-up children.

The travel co-ordinator, Lisa Houghton, works with schools to devise alternative travel plans for children and parents to get to school without the need to drive a car.