Parents queued from 3am to get children into Breakfast Club

Parents hoping to get their children into a breakfast club queued from 3am outside a primary school due to limited space.

More than 130 determined parents lined the curb outside the school for the annual breakfast club sign-up.

Places at the early morning club are limited and the school operates a first-come, first-serve policy.

Grandmother Annett Farrow, 69, left her home in Carmarthen, West Wales, at 1am to secure her place in the queue.

She said: "We have been on the road since 1am and got here at 3am.

"My son and daughter-in-law are on holiday so we had to come. If it gets them a place it will have been worth it.

"We have bought biscuits and crisps - the only problem is the toilets. We have been using the toilets in the hotel opposite."

The 400-pupil primary school, called Ysgol Y Berllan Deg in Cardiff, sends a letter out to parents to alert them to the sign-up date.

The breakfast club is a Welsh Government scheme which provides a free, healthy breakfast at school each day.

Leanne Taylor, who arrived at the school around 3am, said: "If I drop them off at 8.30 I won't be getting into work until 10 because of the traffic.

"If I didn't have this I would not be able to go to work- I can't risk not getting a place, I don't have a plan B."