ANTI-speed campaigners are hoping to put the brake on drivers - with an emotional appeal.

Signs designed by children are to be put up across a Teesside borough.

Road safety experts are hoping the childish appeals to motorists to slow down will reinforce the message made by statutory speed signs.

Two signs designed by pupils at Christ the King Primary and Tedder Junior and Infant schools, will be unveiled in Thornaby's Tedder Avenue, already the subject of a 20mph restriction.

Four winning designs were made into road signs by Stockton Borough Council.

Council road safety officer Neil Ellison said: "What we are hoping is that drivers will appreciate that speed restrictions in school zones are to make the road safer for everyone's children.''

Other primary schools across the borough are being considered for similar treatment.

Sandra Carrott, head of Tedder Junior and Infant School, said: "We used to get vehicles going past the school at 50mph and 60mph. There have been accidents and children hurt in the past.''

Bill Trewick, Stockton council's head of transport, said they were reviewing speed limits, with the hope of introducing a school zone outside every school in the borough