Can anyone explain why 30 or so French students were congregating around Lancing Co-op store on Wednesday, July 6, at lunch time, unsupervised and sitting around anywhere they could, eating lunch?

I thought these youngsters were supposed to be fully occupied when they are in this country?

They were between the ages of about eight and 14 years old, leaving them wide open to all sorts of abuse.

I hope their parents find out and complain bitterly at their lack of supervision.

I would like an explanation from the language school which was supposed to be in charge of them.

-C Cutts (Mrs), Lancing