Hallowe’en could bring more incidents of the clown craze that has arrived from the US Peter Byrne/PAChildline has received 120 calls from children scared by pranksters dressing up as “killer clowns” in the craze that has also led to a rising number of calls to police. The charity urged parents to step in and tell older children dressing up as clowns ahead of Hallowe’en not to threaten or intimidate people. A quarter of the calls to the charity were from children under 11, with most coming from Birmingham, Manchester and Nottingham. John Cameron, head of Childline, urged people dressing up to act responsibly. “There is a worrying trend at the moment with some individuals, be they…

Source: The Times October 14, 2016 07:52 UTC