Around 200 local schoolchildren descended on Bosbury last week as the village hosted the Crucial Crew initiative to teach youngsters how to stay safe in the home and elsewhere.

The emergency services and other organisations, including Herefordshire Council, were on hand to teach 11-year-olds all about life's dangers, on Wednesday and Thursday.

Venues for the teach-ins included Bosbury Primary School, the village hall, Old Court Farm and the post office.

This is the second year in a row that Crucial Crew has come to Bosbury and schoolchildren from all the surrounding primary schools were invited to attend.

Subjects covered included cycle and road safety, home safety, water safety, farm safety, stranger danger and drugs.

Ledbury area rural beat manager Keith Eyles said: Crucial Crew is interactive learning on a very important subject, with the children having direct involvement in a wide range of scenarios and staged emergency situations."

Bosbury Primary School's headteacher Judy Toner said: "I believe Crucial Crew is a vital part of children's education.

"I would like to see it become a compulsory part of the school curriculum."