内容摘要：China's retaliatory tariffs on US goods dropped from 125% to 10%.

China's retaliatory tariffs on US goods dropped from 125% to 10%.

"The tragic death of Caitlin-Rose McMullan in March has seen a young life cut far too short, devastating her family and our community, and we as legislators need to do everything we can to prevent this from happening again."Democratic Unionist Party MLA Deborah Erskine said the possible legislation is a "vital step in protecting our children as they travel to and from school".

"Far too often, we have seen reckless behaviour around school buses that puts young lives at risk," she said."Families have been left heartbroken by the loss of children."It is now more than 20 years since a motion came before Northern Ireland's Assembly asking for an urgent investigation into how children could be better protected getting on and off school buses.

The 2002 motion came just months after the death of 14-year-old Julie Louise Meldrum from Kesh, County Fermanagh.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."I don't want to go there. That's my girl [Tracy] who I made everything happen for," Dame Jacqueline told an audience at the Hay Festival.

She added that she had said "no, I would never do that" before, when planning future writing projects, but noted she had sometimes changed her mind, "so who knows?"Dame Jaqueline's Tracy Beaker books were made into a popular TV series for the BBC. Beaker was a young girl who was placed in a children's home due to neglect and domestic violence.

The author said that she did generally enjoy returning to some of her characters once they had grown up: "I've been thinking about it over the years, because I've invented so many different girls, and it's interesting to think what happens to them when you finish writing about them."Dame Jacqueline recently brought back Ellie, Magda and Nadine in her adult fiction book Think Again, a continuation of her Girls in Love novels.