It's the scary tea shop: one dunk and you're out

An eccentric tea shop owner is causing a stir by barring customers who flout a strict set of rules such as dunking biscuits, clanging their spoons or using mobiles.

David Daly warns customers they will be asked to leave his Brighton shop if they stray from his Victorian-era code of etiquette.

Rules include not putting your elbows on the table, not insulting the Queen, never handling sugar cubes and not sipping from teaspoons.



The "unsavoury habit" of dunking biscuits is "strictly prohibited" and "will resuilt in you being invited to leave the tearooms".

Customers have jokingly described Mr Daly as a Fascist and even set up a website and discussion forum.

One described Tea Cosy Rooms as "the scariest place ever" while another said she had witnessed ejections for "biscuit wetting".