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Mike Bondy, Highams Park, London

I’m so glad you choo-choose to read my column! Your set is from the train spotter’s heyday – a period when the likes of Hornby model trains were in their prime. Inventor Frank Hornby really was one of the greatest toy makers of all and also created Meccano and Dinky. Your Ever Ready set is battery operated and worth £60 to £100.

I THESE baby walkers and kiddie cars may look like perfect Christmas gifts – but they have been branded potential deathtraps.

They were in a shipment of 900 dodgy children’s items intercepted at Britain’s biggest container port before they could be sold through websites and street markets.

The cars, which are branded as Despicable Me but are not genuine film merchandise, are powered by rechargeable batteries. But they come with dangerous plugs which do not fit sockets properly.

The strollers fell apart and collapsed in pieces before safety officials could even finish testing them.

The entire contents of the 40ft shipping container they arrived in from China, along with other goods including tricycles, were impounded in Felixstowe, Suffolk.

Import surveillance officer Phil

Reed said: “By stopping things at the port before they can be sold, we are protecting consumers.”

Carol Garrett, of National Trading Standards’ ports and borders team, said: “Some of the risks are not going to be immediately obvious.”