SIR - Recently, I had a coffee in a Shipley pub, owned by a well-known national pub chain.

Just before I left, a woman brought in a small boy who was probably no older than two or three years old. She was obviously his grandmother.

He began to cry and seemed tired.

“I’ll take you home if you don’t shut it” she told him rather crudely.

She will probably never know how pleased he would have been if she had taken him home and let him play with his toys, in much more appropriate surroundings.

Pubs are generally not the best places for young children to be in, and certainly not at 9am in the morning.

Lorne Campbell, Constance Street, Saltaire