Squat ‘not potty’

A Rochdale shopping centre installed new “squat” toilets for Asian customers after bosses went on a cultural awareness course.

The Rochdale Exchange centre denied going “potty” with political correctness and dismissed suggestions of the “Islamification” of the British toilet.

Managers at the centre, which has around 70 shops, said they were simply catering for the needs of many of their local Asian customers.

The town has a large Asian community and managers at the shopping complex regularly go on cultural awareness courses, according to the spokeswoman for the centre.

As the award–winning shopping complex was to refurbish its existing 14 toilets, it was decided to convert two of them, one for men and one for women, into squat toilets.