A primary school has warned parents that if their children’s dinner money is not paid they will be fed only bread, fruit and water.

Children who run into arrears of more than £6.60 at Mount Pleasant Primary School in Shrewsbury will also have to eat their meagre meal in a separate room, away from their classmates.

Mother Jamie-Lee Heath, whose daughter was in two days' arrears, likened the policy to something from a Charles Dickens novel.