HUNDREDS of school pupils in Amesbury have received new reflective armbands allowing them to walk to school safely this winter.
Around 1,500 of the special armbands were handed out to pupils of six schools in the Amesbury area at an event held in Christ the King school, Amesbury last Friday. The See and Be Seen initiative is the brainchild of Memory Opticians, a south Wiltshire business set up more than 25 years ago by identical twin brothers, Martin and John Memory, who run shops in Salisbury, Amesbury and Tidworth.
They ran a competition among local schoolchildren to design an armband, and arranged for the winning design, chosen by a panel comprising the sponsors, local education representatives and Wiltshire's road policing unit, to be produced for distribution to local schools in the run-up to Christmas.
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