But it was a non-story aog. Nobody forced the DM into making an article of it. Wasn't there any other real news stories that they could have put in its place ?
In some mild defence of the DM, I see the Sunday Times has also decided to run this non-story, on page 12. But if most people would agree that inconsiderate parking outside schools is a problem, and a dangerous one at that, I still can't see the point in giving the perpetrators the oxygen of publicity. Read what the Head Teacher Jackie Lapsa has to say about these stupid parents..."recently a car reversed around the corner, nearly knocking over a child" One of the stupider parents, a Jade O'Brien assaulted a lollipop lady recently, because she was told to move her car. These are the people that are causing the problem, not the Councils who are trying to do something about it.
The real story here is not about some daft connection with an East German security organisation...its about the dangers that children face when going into and out of their schools. Surely the DM and the ST could have done everybody a favour by changing the scare tactics of their almost identical headlines, to something along the lines of ::::
" Stupid parents endanger the lives of children and then complain when they are caught red-handed"
That would have been a more accurate description of the matter in hand.