NEW speed limits on Spin Hill in Market Lavington are due to be implemented by the end of this week.

The changes are the result of a long campaign by residents and Market Lavington Parish Council.

Villagers relaunched a campaign to reduce the 60mph limit following the death of Sharon Oliver nearly two years ago.

Mrs Oliver died when her husband's car was in collision with another car at Spin Hill in April 2003.

Mrs Oliver, who was 34, and her husband, Steve, lived in Stirling Road, Market Lavington.

Mrs Oliver's father, Michael Lynch of London, spoke passionately at a meeting of Wiltshire County Council's regulatory committee last March urging officials to reduce the speed limit.

His support followed the presentation of a 220 signature petition by parish councillor Sharon Charity to the county council in December 2003 calling for the speed limit to be reduced.

The petition called for a 30 mph limit to be introduced. The county council will put in a 30 mph limit from the roundabout at Canada Rise to the end of the housing on Spin Hill and a 40mph limit to the top of Spin Hill and down Ledge Hill.

The 60 mph limit outside St Barnabas Primary School in Drove Lane will also be reduced to 30mph.

Coun Charity said: "It's a big relief that the speed limit is finally being changed but it's taken an incredible length of time to get it to happen."