Banned from taking this photo

Staff at a Pagham holiday site banned a couple from taking photos.

Dawn Norris, 32, took this one snap of four-month-old son Wesley and her husband Andrew in the indoor pool at Church Farm Holiday Village before a lifeguard told her off for breaking privacy rules.

Mr Norris, from Dover, was furious they were forbidden from capturing their son's first splash in a swimming pool at the Haven Holidays site.

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The 45-year-old said: "I was in the pool with Wesley in his rubber ring when I saw the guard go over to Dawn. It turns out loads of places, not just Haven, have this ruling and it's ridiculous."

Haven spokesman Tom Cassidy said: "We sympathise with Mr and Mrs Norris and share the disappointment of parents who are unable to photograph their children's early endeavours in the swimming pool.

"However, like most local authorities and other private swimming pool operators, we have had a policy for a number of years now of prohibiting the use of cameras, videos and camera phones in our pools."