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Dear Mary

Dear Mary: Should I follow Cilla Black’s lead on disabled loos?

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20 June 2015

9:00 AM

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

Q. I was at the theatre recently and bumped into a well-known Liverpudlian crooner coming out of the disabled lavatory. She said ‘Don’t worry, luv, it’s fine to use them if no disabled people are waiting.’ Often theatre interval queues are long and in some of London’s better restaurants the ‘disabled toilet’ is closer, cleaner and more convenient.

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