THE children at Lochgelly's three primary schools are aiming to improve road safety.

The youngsters of Lochgelly South, the West and St Patrick's Primaries, on Monday took possession of three pop up police people carrying key road safety messages around schools.

Thanks to Central Fife Crime Prevention Panel the Lochgelly schools are the proud owners of the signs and these will be in action by next week.

On Monday the panel took along the new pop-ups, worth a total of £500, to Lochgelly South where the school's pupils were able to get a close up of what the schools' staff hope will get the road safety message across.

All three primaries have their own problems in the streets these are in with the South on High Street; the West on Main Street and North Street; and St Pats on Station Road.

Community Police team members Britney Primeau and Gavin Keith, were there with Panel vice chair Dave Roy and member Rosemary Liewald, to hand over the pop-ups.

These carry the messages 'Don't Park on The Zig Zags', 'Watch Your Speed' and 'Watch Where You Park'.

PC Primeau told the children: "Thanks to the Panel you have these signs which you will be able to put outside your schools to get the message over to drivers that they should be careful when around schools.

"Parking continues to be a problem around all our primary schools and when you put the pop-ups out hopefully the messages will get home to motorists."

PC Keith said: "We are in the darker days just now and it makes road safety even more vital so the pop-ups hopefully will persuade drivers to be very careful around your school."

The Panel's Dave Roy and Rosemary Liewald said that the organisation was delighted to help in any way it could.

Said Dave: "The pop-ups have been working highly successfully in Cardenden now for much of the year and I would hope that the story will be the same in Lochgelly."

And Rosemary had this message for the youngsters: "You put the pop-ups outside your schools and I am sure you will see things happen to stop problems arising with cars."

The schools will share the three pop-up messages using them for two weeks at a time.