A school has banned the dance craze "flossing" from the hit video game Fortnite because the moves are intimidating children on the playground.

Catherine Cox, headteacher at Ilfracombe Junior School in Devon, wrote to parents outlining her concerns but faced a furious backlash from parents.

She told them: "We want our school to be one in which human beings treat each other with kindness and appreciation.

"Fortnite is for 12 years pluss. Fortnite is about mass killing of other human beings and being awarded by a dance of celebration if you are successful.

"One of these dances is called the Nazi dance."

"Fortnite is affecting children's learning and behaviour.... it is a safeguarding concern and will be logged as such," she went on to claim. "Children in our school have been using these dances to surround and intimidate other children."