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Monday 21 Mar 2005

MEDIA INVITATION: NO MESSIN’ IN CARDIFF

Region & Route:

| Wales & Western: Wales & Borders

| Wales & Western

Date:                           23 March 2005 Time:                          1pm Location:                    Cardiff City Football Club, Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff Event:                         Journalists and photographers are invited to join railway representatives and local school children for the launch of No Messin’ in Wales Media contact:          Kirsty Anderson, Network Rail, 01793 515267                                                 kirsty.anderson@networkrail.co.uk           Network Rail’s No Messin’ campaign is being launched in one of the UK’s most notorious railway crime hot spots – Cardiff. There are an estimated 27 million cases of trespass on Britain’s railways every year, including 640,000 objects placed on the tracks and four million objects thrown at trains.  As young people commit many of these crimes, Network Rail has developed the ‘No Messin’ safety campaign, stylised to fit today’s popular culture and aimed at those aged between ten and 16 years-old. Peter Leppard, Network Rail’s Acting Western Route Director, said: “Our message is clear – No Messin’ in Cardiff. Every week young people are reported to be trespassing on the railway, taking short cuts, and risking their lives.  Railway tracks are not a playground and this campaign will help to highlight the dangers.”