LADIES’ GO DO WN THE PAN IN REVAMP Helen’s Corrie wobble
CHICKEN diners at KFC were re left spitting feathers – after bosses es axed women-only loos.
A Finger Lickin’ branch offered ed only male or unisex toilets when it reopened ned after a refurb.
Critics feared Colonel Sanders was s bowing to PC pressure amid a growing trend towards mixed-gender toilets that avoid offending ffending trans diners.
After visiting the branch in Newcastlewcastleunder-lyme, Staffs, mum-of-two Jill ll Tanley said: “It’s very bizarre and just not on.”
Another customer in her mid-20s s fumed: “It’s crazy and what about women’s s rights? They’ve gone out the door at KFC and it’s very unfair. But they still do great food.” ood.”
A 17-year-old schoolgirl added: “Why do men get one and we don’t?”
Following the he revamp three cubiubicles had become me mixed-gender, , with figures of fa a black male next ext to a white feemale. A fourth th loo showed only nly one male figure re while a fifth was as for disabled and nd baby changing. g
It was thought ht the move was as part of a nationnwide switch, with KFC branches in Hampshire also understood to have had ad unisex toilets installed.
A female worker said: “Customers ers have been moaning about the changes ges but the company wanted to cover their heir backs over the transgender and gender der neutral current issue and think it’s the best way forward.”
However later it emerged the new signs had been put up in error and not as s part of a deliberate policy.
A KFC spokesman said: “It looks ks like there was a bit of a mix up here with ith the toilet signs, but not to panic – they’ve ve now been changed.”
Three branches of KFC in neighbouring bouring Stoke-on-trent still have separate male and female loos.
A nationwide trend towards unisex ex toilets has seen London’s Old Vic Theatre introduce ntroduce gender-neutral loos.
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CORONATION Street fave Helen Flanagan wants to be back on the cobbles – even though she can’t watch it at the moment.
Last month Corrie showed one of its most emotional episodes ever when Sinead Tinker (Katie Mcglynn) lost her cancer battle.
Helen, 29, who played Rosie Webster, told the Sunday People: “I haven’t been watching Corrie. I’m a mum and I’d find it too hard because of the plots. It’s a bit sad. I’ll go back but I’m just trying to work it out with the kids. When you are a mum babies come first.”
Currently Helen, who lives in Scotland with Celtic footballer Scott Sinclair, 30, is kept busy running after Matilda, four, and 18-month-old Delilah. She said: “I’ve got two kids, it feels like I’ve got a million.”
No wonder she’s kept in such great shape.