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Drivers of burger and snack vans in Newport have hit out at the double standards shown by head teachers who want to stop them from operating outside schools.

The local council recently put forward a proposal suggesting that all mobile food sellers be prohibited from plying their trade near the city's secondary schools, which if implemented would be the first such scheme ever introduced in England or Wales.

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However, van operators have now hit back at the head teachers who prompted this piece of legislation, the Western Mail has reported, by pointing out that their own union's conferences are in fact sponsored by the McDonald's fast food chain.

One such driver, Steve Jones, commented to the paper: "I was amazed to discover that the Welsh conference of the National Association of Head Teachers is sponsored by McDonald's.

"How can members of the union claim they are campaigning against junk food when they have a sponsor like that? It's hypocrisy."

Newport City Council suggested the ban after complaints from school heads that these vans are compromising efforts to get their pupils to eat more healthily and even claimed that a lower intake of junk food could improve students' performances in class.

Research last year by the Department for Health indicated that 1.7 million children aged between two and 15 will suffer from obesity by 2010, with roughly one in five boys and girls being clinically overweight.

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