Completly agree. I worked the pageant (Non security capacity) and to be honest the childrens attitude and behaviour from what I saw what impreccable. However, by a small minority, it appeared, if you were over the age of 50 you had no respect for barriers and those smaller/younger than themselves.

The amount of "Ladies" that were happy to move barriers, ignore Police/security, and just have a general disrepect towards the whole Pageant, I think, left a younger generation with less respect.

Shame on the small minority. I hope they knew who they were and you were seen. Don't ever moan about young people again.

Looking at the picture I feel I can identify the older generation that the writer is referring to. They are Mr & Mrs P Mountbatten from Windsor,I'm told they regularly turn up at these type of events.

It seems to be accepted now old age is an excuse for poor manners however 50 should show a little more consideration and empathy for the young children who could not see .

However i was at a dog show last year and watched a silly 5o-60 year old woman accuse a 8 year old of cheating simply because the judge chose the childs dog , when i asked why she thought the child had cheated she said because it was obvious if the judge had not chosen her dog she would have cried and embarrassed everyone so her mother should have shown her dog .Sad but true .

There is no excuse for poor manners however nobody has a god-given right to think that they should receive preferential treatment be it on the basis of age, youth or any other reason; that is the true meaning of equality, a ticket is a ticket and should be purely dealt with upon first come first served basis.

Saga louts!!

I was incredulous to hear the family who cordoned off a large prime area with wind breaks then defended their right to do so on the grounds that they got there at 8am! They then proceeded to verbally abuse other attendees and accused them of ruining their day!

It doesn't say much for the type of people who attended this event.

Our republican pageant might not have been that well-attended, but me and the dogs were very polite to each other...

[I was incredulous to hear the family who cordoned off a large prime area with wind breaks]

[They then proceeded to verbally abuse other attendees and accused them of ruining their day!]

They must have been adjacent to that stand where they were all eating baked beans.

it was a great day until Shropshire County council became involved! we arrived and managed to get a good spot and was having our picnic when SCC decided that it was there space so we had to move! missed our children in the parade so the queen could see their posh frocks! they didnt even have the decency to stay until the end of parade before they got back to their probably free champers!!!

After reading the sort of people the Queen has to sit next to and entertain the the Star letters today,I feel unsurprised at the well known derision the royal family has for us commoners.

I suppose it's just a job at the end of the day but conversing with fawning post fifties is a pretty ghastly aspect of it.

For your information I have sent a letter to SCC and not just used the media. I have taught my children well and I know I will continue. My children have had excellent school reports thanks you. I just hope that you have taught your children manners not to insult others just to get your point across. Please reread your first reply as it doesn't make sense, I was too polite to point it out before!

2 Older ladies use the Shrewsbury - Market Drayton bus and physically push past everyone in the line toget on the bus first and do the same when they leave the bus using appalling bad language if challenged?

Only last week an old couple tried to push me forward with their Super Market trolley whilst I was waiting for the cash wrap.

This has happened quite recently. Good Manners have slipped :(

Bad manners are not exclusive to any age bracket any more than good manners are the domain of the older generation. My wife, at a petite 4 ft 10 ins had stood patiently adjacent the barrier at Cosford, hoping to catch a glance of the Queen and Prince Philip. With only minutes to their arrival, 2 men in the late twenties/early thirties, both 6 ft plus and armed with camara's needed a better view and pushed in front of her and were amazed when I remonstrated with them (I aren't 4ft)! Couldn't I see that they needed a good spot to get their photo's was their only defence. Their yobbish behaviour is sadly a to common reflection of the times we live in. So it really isn't surprising to read that older people reacted how they did. They were just responding to the unkind world that we now reside in.

Visited Cosford with three school children, all very excited at being given the opportunity to see the Queen. Did they see the Queen? Nope, too many adults at the front of the barriers who had absolutely no intention of budging, even an inch, from their prime positions in order to let a small child stand in front of them.

i know a couple or members of scc and they would be at the opening of a envelope if the cameras were there you only have to look at their facebook page

These oloder folk think the world owes them a favour! i was in tescos recently, and as i was approaching the till and old lady in her 60's with a walking stick strode over to the tills so quickly just to get there before me, a late 20s lad! when will they realise that you are not simply entitled to manners due to age, you earn them with your manners towards others!

i know it was hard living under thatcher and john major in your youth but we have to live under clegg and camron, so its all square!

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Interesting comment - on the other hand, my retired mother was subjected to having her hair pulled, and being pushed and kicked, by two children who were being egged on by their mothers, and by the mothers themselves. The security guards had to step in as it was getting so physical. Where was the example of good behaviour from the parents? I don't think you can tar just one group with your brush - they're all as bad as each other.