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A young mum was left ‘humiliated and angry’ after being asked to leave a Huddersfield pub with her baby.

Zoe Phillips accused the Crown in Westgate of ‘discriminating’ against her as she stormed out in a lunchtime row.

The 26-year-old took exception to the way she was asked to leave because the pub does not allow under-18s.

“The waitress was really abrupt,” said Zoe, of Oakes.

But the Crown said the age restriction is clearly flagged up in the entrance.

Zoe went to the pub with her dad and six-month-old baby Esmie on Friday.

“I wanted to buy my dad lunch to welcome him to Huddersfield as he has just moved here from Birmingham,” she said.

“Esmie was in her pram asleep. We went in. No-one said anything. I got a menu and then a woman came and said: ‘You’ll have to leave. We don’t allow children in here’.

“No apologies or ‘sorry’.

“As I left I said: ‘thank you for discriminating against me’ then I burst into tears. I was angry and upset.”

Zoe put a message on the Crown’s website and got one back saying there is a sign in the doorway that under-18s are not allowed in.

“I didn’t see it,” she said. “They implied they were sorry if I had taken offence.

“I want other parents to bear this in mind. I don’t want anyone else to be made to feel like this.

“It took all my confidence to go in and I was really upset.”

She said her dad, Conrad, had been shocked by the row. “Some welcome to Huddersfield,” said Zoe.

A spokesman at the Crown said: “There is a sign in the doorway which clearly says under-18s are not allowed.”