The Argus article regarding stolen knickers reminded me of a time when I had just started teaching.

I had taken a group of girls to Worthing Magistrates Court for a morning session and one of the cases was a young man charged with stealing ladies' underwear from washing lines.

One of my pupils began to slide down under the bench we were sitting on. I asked her why and she replied: "It's my ex-boyfriend. He's a knicker nicker."

-BA Mulhern, Coleman Avenue, Hove