Nottingham parents open Kingsmill loaf and find blue string running through it

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Lucy Knowles, 26, bought the £1 Kingsmill Thick Soft White from a Spar
Her partner noticed a bit of fluff while making a sandwich for their girl
They then checked the loaf and found pieces of string in every slice
Ms Knowles was furious and felt it could have caused harm to their toddler

By Anthony Joseph for MailOnline

Published: 13:38 EST, 27 September 2015 | Updated: 18:39 EST, 27 September 2015

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A mother-of-three was stunned to find pieces of thick blue string right through her loaf of bread.

Lucy Knowles, 26, bought the £1 Kingsmill Thick Soft White from a Spar shop in Nottingham.

Her partner Dane Barclay, also 26, noticed what he suspected was a piece of fluff while buttering a slice of the bread for their two-year-old daughter Layla Barclay.

When he pulled at it he realised it was a 6cm-long piece of blue string. The couple looked through the rest of the loaf and found pieces of the thread running through almost every slice and it appeared to have been baked into the top.

Ms Knowles, who had eaten a slice before the discovery, was angered by what she saw as she felt it could have caused harm to her daughter.

Lucy Knowles with her daughter Layla Barclay and the piece of string which they found running through a loaf of bread she had bought from a Spa shop in Nottingham

The piece of string which Lucy Knowles found running through a loaf the Kingsmill Thick Soft White

Dane Barclay, also 26, noticed what he suspected was a piece of fluff while buttering a slice of the bread for their two-year-old daughter Layla Barclay.

The full-time mother, from Nottingham, said: 'My partner was making our daughter a sandwich and he could literally pull the string through the bread.

'You can't snap it and fibres were coming off it and all the blue colour was staying in the bread. It was disgusting.

'It looks like something you'd see on a joint of meat.

'You've got to think of safety. That could have risked my daughter's life.

'She has a bad cough at the moment so if he had started choking I might not have even noticed and she could have died. I tried to snap the thread but you can't, it's really tough.

'I can't see how they can't find it when they make the dough or slice it or bag it, it hasn't been checked.'

Ms Knowles, who had eaten a slice before the discovery, was angered by what she saw as she felt it could have caused harm to her daughter

Ms Knowles, who is also mother to Michaela Cordon, seven, and five-year-old Ellie-May Cordon, complained to Kingsmill who told her they would post her a bag to send the bread back in.

She added: 'Kingsmill haven't said sorry but sorry is not going to be good enough anyway.

'It's just a good job my partner saw it or my daughter would have eaten it.

'I couldn't sleep after that. I kept thinking, what if my daughter had swallowed it. I was fuming.'

Mr Barclay, a pub worker, added: 'I'm not happy about it at all.

'I was halfway through making my daughter a sandwich for her tea when this thing that looks like rope was coming out of the middle of the bread.'