Primary school children across the North West are swapping their parents' cars for the pavement thanks to a share of £1.8m of Government money: 361 schools in the region have been awarded up to £1,000 to encourage pupils to walk to school, helping them to keep fit and reducing the number of journeys made by car.
"Walking buses" are convoys of pupils accompanied by staff or volunteers which follow a set route to school, and are amongst a range of measures introduced by local heads in ...


