[Gayle]

I've had a scout around the web for all the different stories about this and it would appear that it first appeared in the Telegraph and The Daily Mail - all the other papers and websites are reporting what they first read in the Mail, actually quoting that as their source in some cases.

The Mail and the Telegraph do report it slightly differently. The Mail sensationally says that she refused to serve the woman, this is clearly not the case as she was happy to serve her just not touch the book and put it into the bag. The Telegraph's wording is slightly different about the 'unclean' part and I'm tempted to agree with Willow on this one. Muslim women are seen as 'unclean' when they are menstuating therefore, she would not have wanted to touch her holy book or any other holy book at that time.

The fact that this story was first run in the Mail and Telegraph leads me to believe that the odds of the report being skewed are quite high!