The poll was carried out for a business travel trade show. "It's understandably frustrating for business travellers, who have paid a premium in expectation they can work and sleep in comfort, to have that peace disturbed by children," said event director David Chapple.
But Frank Barrett, the Mail on Sunday's travel editor, hit back. "I'm always amused to see children in business class on flights," he told the paper. "What sort of business can these children be travelling on? What work does a six-month-old baby have to do in New York?
"However, as much as I hate being kept awake all night by a grizzling child, starting to introduce passenger apartheid might be a dangerous step. Where would it end? Banning fat people, roping off anyone who has smelly breath? We'll have to grin and bear the presence of kiddies, I'm afraid."
Police have provoked fury by refusing to enter a children's play area at night to tackle "yobs".
"Officers have been banned from going into the unlit playground after 8pm because of health and safety fears," reported Metro. "The £1m area has attracted yobs since it opened last year and local people hoped police would confront them at night," it charmingly continued.
The paper quoted inspector Andy Sullivan of Cambridgeshire Police saying: "It is not our job to get kids out of the park. The place has no lighting and is still, in effect, a building site." But he added: "If there is a crime being committed then obviously we will go in."
His comments caused outrage at the town council at Wisbech, where Waterlees Park is based. "What on Earth sort of society have we got where police officers refuse to go anywhere after 8pm?" fumed councillor Richard Fulcher. "In my days, the police would draw a truncheon and give you a good hiding."
Ah yes, the good old days when it was fine to bash children with sticks.
Inspector Sullivan later said he had never described the park as a "no-go area for my officers".
Competition for higher education places in the UK is intense. But it seems young people across the pond are also prepared to go that extra mile to get into college.
A 16-year-old boy has admitted placing an old grand piano on a sand bar in Miami's Biscayne Bay, ending a mystery that had gripped the city.
"Nicholas Harrington said he had used the family boat to haul the piano to its lonely perch as an art project to boost his bid for university," reported the BBC News website. Nicholas told the Associated Press: "I wanted to create a whimsical, surreal experience."
Unfortunately, his highbrow art project encouraged a lowbrow copycat. A day after the piano was removed, a small table, two chairs, a bottle of wine and a statue of a chef appeared on the same sand bar, now known locally as "the piano bar".
