Newspaper front pages will be hidden from view in Tesco stores after a campaign by pressure groups to protect children from sexual images.
By the end of this month, branches of the supermarket will have redesigned newsstands that show only the title and logo of newspapers, concealing photographs and headlines. The decision comes after lobbying by Child Eyes and No More Page 3 to reduce children’s exposure to sexual imagery.
Child Eye’s co-founder, Kathy McGuiness, said that she started campaigning two years ago when she noticed her four-year-old son staring at explicit images on the front page of a tabloid newspaper in a supermarket. “Children have the right to go into a shop and not be confronted by these images. We have become desensitised to