Cartoon: John Sadler 

• “OUR toxic streets: children should use only side streets to get to school.”

This was the headline for an article in the New Journal last year.

My granddaughter, 11 years old, has to cross both King’s Cross and Pentonville roads to get to and from school. Both of them are “highly toxic streets’’. If only we had a secondary school south of Euston Road…

BOB DAVENPORT, WC1