Parents are voicing their disbelief at over-sensitive young Britons who think that traditional fairy tales are inappropriate. A survey revealed that young Brits think they are outdated and too scary.
Award-winning travel-writer Nick Jubber, who s written The Fairy Tellers, told FEMAIL how the darkness in fairytales was inspired by the horrible histories that the writers lived through,
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