A bad sign

A furniture shop in Eastbourne has banned all foreign students from entering. The manager of the Perfect Homes store, Chris Moffet, claims that this is because the students were taking fast food into the shop, sitting on the sofas and using the coffee tables, and in doing so had damaged some of the shop's stock.

In which case, anyone with half a brain would have put up a sign saying "no food or drink" - something that's totally acceptable and can be seen in shops up and down the country. Instead, the apparently brainless Moffet barred all foreign students from entry - something that is quite rightly illegal.

There's no excuse for a "no foreigners" sign in this country in this century. Let's hope Moffet is prosecuted; if he is, there's no limit to the fine a court can impose on him.