[West Ender]

It is very sad that some people feel afraid to help, or even speak to, a distressed child. Speaking for myself I react the same way as I always did to any child, with or without its parent. Perhaps it's a little easier for me to say that, as a grandmother, than it might be for a man on his own but, whatever the current "restrictions" on how we deal with children I prefer to apply good sense, good manners and kindness.

The worst thing we are suffering from, today, is paranoia. People are so frightened of the "monster in the cupboard" - the Paedophile - that they see evil all around. The fact that there were just as many paedophiles around when I was a child is ignored by the media who fuel the paranoia with lurid details and glaring headlines.