CAMPAIGNING residents and school children in Dilton Marsh have won their battle to make the road through the village safer.

Wiltshire County Council has resolved to build three sets of control cushions in the high street.

At a meeting of the council's regulatory committee, objections from a local resident were overturned and the proposed speed controls were approved.

The road through the village is a long straight that is often used as a rat-run by commuters. Local residents were so concerned they set up a group called Dilton Road Safety for the 21st Century last year.

Safety group chairman David Rhodes said: "This is excellent news and the result of getting the experts in to look at the road with us to see what we have to put up with and how dangerous it is."

Pupils at the village school felt so passionately about having a safer route to school, that they even wrote to their MP.

Dilton Marsh Primary School headteacher Judith Finney said the pressure has paid off.

"I think this was a problem identified by the pupils and then taken up by adults who can do something about it," she said.

"We have taken professional advice and reached a compromise that suits everyone."