Freedom honour for lollipop lady after 50 years' service
By Jennifer Harby & Matt SmithA lollipop lady who has supervised school crossings for 50 years has been given the freedom of her village.
Sandy Flamson - who is known as Fred the Lollipop - from Whitwick, Leicestershire, was given the honorary title by the parish council. She said: "I thought it was all a joke. I didn't know that you had awards for doing a job that you love."Image caption,Ms Flamson said: "I felt stunned, flabbergasted because I'm doing a job that I love and I didn't know you had awards for that.""You never know what the children are going to say or what they're going to tell you," she said.
"But it does make you feel a bit old when a little lad comes up to you and says 'You crossed my grandma'."Lee Swales, the deputy head at Whitwick St John the Baptist Primary School, whose pupils Ms Flamson helps to cross the road, said: "Fred means everything to the school."She's truly an integral part of the village.""It is purely an honorary title," she said.
"She crossed me over when I was going to school - my brother, my sister, my daughter, people's grandchildren and she's still doing the same thing now.
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