Ref: 12767/1MORE than 30 children have been taking part in a safe cycling scheme at Pewsey. The Easter holidays National Cycling Proficiency Test Training undertaken at Pewsey Police Station is understood to be the only one of its kind in Wiltshire and possibly in the country.

This year 32 children gave up four days of their Easter holidays to learn how to ride their bicycles safely on the highway.

They will all be invited back to Pewsey on May 4 for a ceremony at the fire station, when they will be presented with their NCP test certificates.

Two former Pewsey constables, Bob Lewis, who is retired, and PC Peter Gee, who is now stationed at Tidworth, returned to help with the training.

The other instructors were road safety officer Jackie Cripps and Di Myall who is the civilian receptionist from the police station and was formerly a Special WPC.

Mrs Myall, who lives in Pewsey, and former village bobby Mr Lewis are the only two instructors left from when the scheme was launched by Sgt Martin Murphy in 1990.

Mrs Myall said: "As far as we know the scheme is still unique. Most safe cycling courses are run at schools, where this one is run from a police station."

The children who took part came from Marlborough and for the first time some pupils from St Francis School at Pewsey joined in.