Pupils fly the flag for safety
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CHILDREN at Staplehurst Primary School in Kent are showing their betters a thing i two about road safety. One of the pupils designed a "safety flag" which now flies over the school so long as it is free fror accidents, just as the Royal Standard flutters over the Queen's residence when she i safely at home.
The word "think" is printed the fingers of a black outspreE hand on a white background. Frank Dunn, the village beat officer, persuaded local businessmen to contribute £9 to buy the flag and Staplehurs Transits, a local transport company, gave and erected ft pole.
Chief Constable Frank Jordi thought the innovation sufficiently important to inaugurate it himself. More th 1,500 young people were kille or seriously injured on Kent roads last year and anything t reduces the toll is worth suppi