13/09/2026
Today I had the huge privilege of walking with parents from Dallington Grange to Kingsthorpe College.
This is one of the schools the Council says kids can walk to since the scrapping of the plans for a new school at Dallington Grange.
So we walked 3.5 miles - starting at Poppyfield Way - taking a short cut across the fields to Kingsthorpe, then the hefty climb up Boughton Green Road.
Bravo for the children who walked and waved their banners.
But the idea they could do it twice a day, every day in all weather and in the winter dark, is a nonsense.
That new secondary school at Dallington Grange has to happen. And the Council and Government have to make sure it does