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A child's drawing inspired a nursery nurse to lose 13 stone and drop from size 30 to 14, said the Sunday Mail.

Linda McKnight of the Pre-3 Centre in Greenock Sports Centre said, 'Thelittle girl painted a picture of a woman with a blob for a body and ablob for a head. I asked if it was her mummy but she said, "No, mymummy's not fat - that's you". I decided it was time I did somethingabout my weight.'

Bookstart has denied charges of political correctness after the words in'What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor?' were rewritten to 'a grumpypirate' in a Bookstart project, reported the BBC.

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