AND FINALLY

The sight of a hoodied-up youth is usually enough to strike terror into the heart of Middle England, but it must take an extreme level of paranoia to start getting the shakes when the youth is only two-years-old.

This happened last week in Norwich when a toddler was sternly ordered to take off his coat hood when he waddled into a Co-op with his grandad. The security guard wasn’t going to take any chances with the latent criminal tendencies of a baby-faced hoodlum already well into the terrible twos.

When challenged over the obvious lack of threat involved, the guard revealed who he really fears - much bigger,older menaces. Apparently, ‘eight-year-olds will moan’ if they see special treatment being given to other pre-pre-teens. The steets might not be safe, but at least the Co-op is.