"That's the magic time, and it just works for me. Apparently Michael Morpurgo does exactly the same!"
The teenager had been knocked down as she got off the bus outside her home in December 2001.The assembly motion had been brought forward by then Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kennedy.
He said in 2001, about 300 school children had been injured travelling to and from school.Patricia Lewsley-Mooney, then an SDLP MLA who would later become the children's commissioner in Northern Ireland, remembers that was among a number of road safety improvements discussed.It is a move that "still makes perfect sense", she told BBC News NI, and one that would also need other drivers to comply with the required law changes.
"Back then it was decided we would go down a different route, we would put better red warning lights on the back of buses."That more than 20 years later there are still safety improvement calls, she said, is disappointing.
A French horn player has said that being part of an orchestra that includes disabled and neurodivergent musicians has helped her to be herself.
Georgina Spray, 25, plays for and is assistant music leader for the Birmingham National Open Youth Orchestra (NOYO) ensemble.Two disused phone boxes are to be transformed into writing hubs as part of a creative community project.
Writer and artist Kim Squirrell hopes to reopen the two red kiosks in Bridport, Dorset, to create a place for people to put pen to paper.Ms Squirrell and poet Lisa Wilson are hosting information sessions outside the boxes, sharing their plans for the Writing Box and gathering ideas.
Participants at the first event on Friday were given postcards to write to loved ones, and cards were also distributed around the town.The kiosks, outside Bridport's post office, have been locked since being decommissioned, but a sign in the window says they can be adopted for £1.