Parents are pleading with council chiefs to build a buggy path to stop them having to climb 66 steps to their school.

St Cuthbert's Primary was built five years ago near the top of a hill in Ruchill Park.

Since it first opened its doors, parents claim they have been asking Glasgow City Council to install a path to help access the school.

But the council says its hands are tied as it does not own all of the land around the primary school's campus.

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Leanne Miller, who is a member of the St Cuthbert's Primary Parent Council, has a son in P6 at the school and three-year-old twins in nursery as well as a four-month-old baby.

She has to push a pram up and down the flight of stairs twice a day with her toddlers.

Leanne said: "I was climbing up those stairs with my older children when I was pregnant with the twins and we were complaining about the situation to the council.

"Now they are aged three and at the nursery and I'm still having to climb up them - now with a buggy as my youngest child is four months old.

"We raised this issue with the council before the school was even built and it has never been resolved.

"After our old primary school was knocked down they decided to build in the park at the top of the hill but didn't listen to us about what a problem this would be."

Part of the land is owned by Scottish Enterprise and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, both of which have refused permission to build a buggy path on the land.

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St Cuthbert Primary forms part of Benview Campus with Highpark Primary and Benview Nursery.

Leanne lives on the side of the school where the nearest access is by climbing the stairs.

She said her only other option is to drive the children to school and nursery - going against the council's aim of having more children use active travel to reach school.

The mum-of-five said: "My twins and my older children love walking to school.

"I've always told them how important it is to walk to school to be healthy and get some exercise and not take the car but sometimes I'm forced to drive them.

"Some parents leave their children at the bottom of the steps to walk up themselves.

"But you are letting children go into a park by themselves and you are a bag of nerves letting them walk away on their own."

Leanne also said that in winter the stairs run with water, which often freezes over and makes the climb more difficult.

She added: "We have been given all sorts of excuses over the years by the council but we are at the end of our tethers now.

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"Why would you build it like that in the first place?

"They are not the ones bumping the buggy backwards up 66 steps every day.

"If they were, they would care more about doing something to help us."

A spokeswoman for Glasgow City Council said the authority had every sympathy with parents and was working to find a solution.

She said: "We will continue to work with our partners to come to a satisfactory solution."