PARENTS who park on yellow zig-zags outside two schools in north Kent this month could be handed a £70 fine.

An initiative run by Kent police and Kent County Council hopes to make roads outside primary schools safer by enforcing parking restrictions.

The scheme was run successfully in four schools last year, and will be in place at Meopham Primary School from 1-8 March and at Higham Primary School from 15-26 March.

Pupils at the schools in Longfield Road, Meopham, and School Lane, Higham, will be given an assembly on parking safely and have been asked to encourage their parents to park further away from the school gates.

Kent police neighbourhood Inspector Mike Coltham says: “By involving the children, they will be able to encourage their parents to park properly and may also, when they are older, be more considerate drivers.”