Pupils want chocolate ban lifted

Nov 17 2009

A group of pupils who were banned from selling chocolate at a school stall have taken their campaign for a u-turn to MSPs.

The Fair Trade stall at Dyce Academy in Aberdeen closed down after Scottish Government guidelines on healthy eating saw them banned from selling chocolate, cereal bars, nuts and even fruit juice.

Third year pupils Laura Stebbings and Julia Standing, both 14, and 17-year-old Erin Young, in sixth year, told Holyrood's Petitions Committee that healthy lifestyles cannot be "forced" on youngsters.