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Smashing fun

A READER taking a brisk winter's walk around an East Kilbride park heard a little boy ask his mother why there were coins in a pretend wishing well there.

She told him people threw their shrapnel in for luck.

"That's stupid," said the wee boy, to which his mother replied it was a long tradition.

So the boy asked his mother for some coins to throw in, but she tugged him away. "No son," she said, "it's stupid."