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Four-year-old boy frisked and has Nerf gun confiscated at airport - because it was deemed 'security risk'

A four-year-old boy was frisked and had his plastic Nerf gun confiscated - because it was deemed a security risk.

Little James Hayward had arrived at East Midlands Airport with his parents, Phil, 44, and Hazel, 38, with his brightly coloured toy, which fires sponge darts, packed in his hand luggage.

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