SIR: I was disgusted when I read S Turner's view on the little girl who had eaten a scalding pastie.

Is it not a right for toddlers to eat pasties, pies etc from shops such as Greenhalgh's and not get scalded.

Would it be such an effort for shopkeepers to keep a small quantity of these products to cool down for their younger customers.

And as for this reader sitting down to her meals when she was younger - it's 1996, times have changed. For a busy mum, as I am, who is in town at lunch time, is it not our right as much as the next person to be able to buy our youngsters a pastie for them to eat. And as for her saying this was immature behaviour, does this woman have children of her own, and if so, would she ever have written those pathetic comments, if it had happened to her child. I think not.

Miss S Foster, Mornington Road, Bolton

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