内容摘要：Democratic Unionist Party MLA Deborah Erskine said the possible legislation is a "vital step in protecting our children as they travel to and from school".

Democratic Unionist Party MLA Deborah Erskine said the possible legislation is a "vital step in protecting our children as they travel to and from school".

Despite having written more than 100 books, Dame Jacqueline said she still felt anxious when writing."Always about halfway through a book, even now, you think 'I've got the hang of this with all these books that I've written', but I get that terrible doubt and worry about it and and it's just something you learn. Work through it, get to the end."

One habit that must help is that she writes in her pyjamas in bed, once she's fed the cat and let the dogs out first thing in the morning."That's the magic time, and it just works for me. Apparently Michael Morpurgo does exactly the same!"But it wasn't always so easy to pick and choose her times to write.

Dame Jacqueline said: "I was idiotic enough to be married at 19 and had a child at 21."My husband wasn't a terrible man in the slightest but it was an age [the 1960s] when men went out and did, and women did everything else."

She said she "adored" her baby daughter but she would only sleep for two hours at a time. When she did doze off, Dame Jacqueline said she wanted to sleep too but used the short window available to write.

She got a little more time when her daughter Emma went to nursery in the mornings.A mother whose 11-year-old daughter died when exiting her school bus has called for better road safety in Northern Ireland.

Caitlin-Rose McMullan died after beingin Castledawson, County Londonderry, in March.

Stella McMullan said her daughter may not have lost her life if there had been "bus safety in place".It comes as plans are in place to bring forward legislation to prohibit drivers overtaking school buses which have stopped to drop off or pick up their passengers.