Silenced Night for childrens choir

A kids choir was left in tears at a shopping centre after security staff told them to shut up.



The 23 children — aged three to five — were ordered to stop singing carols because they were too noisy.

Nursery school teachers had taken the kids — in Santa hats — to entertain festive shoppers.

Shopkeepers backed the kids in the sing-song ding-dong, saying the tots cheered up visitors with old favourites like We Wish You A Merry Christmas. And store manager Lorraine Harvey said: “None of our customers complained about the kids.”

But security staff at Nottingham’s Exchange Arcade said the tots were asked to quieten down before they intervened.

They were backed by centre manager Joe Joseph, who said: “I was told by the security guards that they were making a noise — and not singing.”