Work to install pedestrian crossings outside two schools is due to start next week.

Seaton Academy and Ashfield Infant School in Workington, will have crossings outside their buildings.

A temporary traffic light will be installed outside Seaton Academy on Monday and work will also include the widening of the pavement at strategic points and improvements to street lighting.

Work is expected to last three weeks.

On Monday work will also start to install a signalised crossing on Newlands Lane, outside Ashfield school.

The road will be temporarily closed to enable work to take place.

This will include widening of the pavement, improvements to street lighting and resurfacing works.

The new traffic signals will be linked with the existing signals on the A596 at High Street to ensure the most efficient management of traffic. Preliminary works on the footway of the A596 will begin on Sunday.

Work on the Newlands Lane crossing is expected to last five weeks.

Councillor Keith Little, county council's cabinet member for highways and transport, said: "I'm very pleased these works to improve the safety of school children and their parents is going ahead during the summer holidays. This is part of a huge programme of highways improvement works across the county which I’m delighted to see is now underway. The outcome of these works will be better and safer roads for everyone."