Name: Mr Jimmy Cameron (79)
Spot: Lochalsh Road - Dunabban Road
Lollipop Experience: 14 years
Former: Bus driver (40 years)

"We’ve got quite good children in Merkinch, I wouldn’t say they were hair-raising. Some of them stand too close to the curb. Some of the traffic even stops, some you’ve got to get them to stop.

No way would the the children manage on their own, there’s a lot of smaller kids and small children.

I’m always up early, even when I wasn’t at work. I wouldn’t last standing looking out of the window all day."

Name: Mr Willie MacLean (79 in April)
Spot: School Gates
Lollipop experience: 8 years
Former: ‘Tunnel Tiger’, hard rock mining for Hydro Schemes, Welder

"I get to meet people, it suits me fine, it gives me a bob or two. I would die if I wasn’t working and you’re better off out of the wife’s road. We’re always meeting people and speaking to new people. The Merkinch people are very good people."

Name: Mrs Sandra Vanzetta (31)
Spot: Wyvis Place - Lower Kessock Street Lollipop Experience: 2 ½ years
Former: Bookshop Assistant

"It’s alright, we take the good with the bad. Its nice in the summer, in the winter its like ‘is this ever going to end’.

They’re [the children] are all very polite actually, we get the odd one and you think ‘here he comes’ but the majority are very polite. You just give as good as you get.

It [the traffic] doesn’t frighten me. There’s the odd one that won’t stop and you think ‘can you not see me, am I not bright enough?'"