Video ban head quits

A primary school headteacher has quit after parents attacked her decision to ban cameras from the school's nativity play, because of the risk of paedophiles seeing the images.

Pamela Nunn, who ran Homefield First School in Bradwell, Norfolk, blamed her resignation on the parents who criticised her conduct in the media, a local council spokesman said.

The controversy is the latest in a spate of rows about the risk of child abusers obtaining and misusingpictures of children taken at school events.

In Edinburgh, officials apologised last week after being forced to retract a similar order to all 156 of the city's nursery, primary and secondary schools.

The Red Cross yesterday defended its decision to stop its charity shops displaying Christmas trees and Nativity scenes because they could offend non-Christians, particularly Muslims.