In message <JtydneYzSrJJBPfVRVnyvQA@posted.plusnet>
          Arthur Figgis <afiggis@example.com.invalid> wrote:

> simon wrote:
> > "Brian Watson"  wrote in message 
> > news:6curj4F3is4mmU1@mid.individual.net...
> >> "simon"  wrote in message 
> >> news:1KCdna8UEMlwo_TVnZ2dnUVZ8hmdnZ2d@bt.com...
> >>
> >>> Would it be interesting to know the increase in school run distances 
> >>> since introduction of labours social policies in allocation of school 
> >>> places ?
> >> It's bugger-all to do with that in my village. It's paranoid Mums who are 
> >> convinced their little darlings will be kidnapped by paedophiles if they 
> >> are allowed to walk a quarter of a mile to and from school.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Brian
> >> "Fight like the Devil, die like a gentleman."
> >>
> > I knew someone would take off in that direction. :-)
> > 
> > However was asking about the increase not the cause of insisting on 
> > accompanying. Plus there are situations where children dont go on their own 
> > such as sending a 4 year old on a 5 mile bus journey or where it requires 
> > several busses to cover several miles.
> 
> You realise you will now have triggered a huge "I travelled to Timbuktu 
> by bus three years before I was born and it never did me any harm" thread?
> 

But was it an RT or RF?

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