I WAS amazed at the headline on the Echo's front page yesterday.

Christina Curtis has no reason to be ashamed, especially as she was doing her best for her baby.

The shame belongs to those who treated her so badly.

My mum regaled me with stories of my being breast fed on the tram. I well remember Sunday teas with aunts feeding cousins.

Every decent-sized shop had a chair for nursing mothers.

That was 80 years ago in what was reckoned to be a straight-laced time.

So my generation regularly saw it live.

A quick look at the internet offered 75 million images of babies being breast fed, so none in the computer-literate generation should be surprised.

BOB RUST

The Slades, Basildon