Pushy parents staying in children’s student accommodation

Overprotective parents – dubbed ‘helicopter parents’ because they hover over their grown-up children – have had to be discouraged to stay on the floors of their offspring’s dorm rooms, according to the University of the West of England, in Bristol.

Keith Hicks, a university spokesman, said: “They say ‘I’d like to live here’. The trouble is just a handful do …

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