A taxi driver was suspended from taking children to school after he was seen kissing and hugging his own daughters.
Tony Kemp, 60, says he often picks up youngsters from nearby villages to take them to school in Pickering, North Yorkshire.
But the private hire driver said he received a call from the local authority last Thursday telling him he was being suspended from the school run with immediate effect.
He was told an allegation had been made against him but he could be given no more details.
The following day he was told that it had become known that a driver had been suspended after someone had reported seeing him kissing and cuddling two girls outside Pickering Junior School.
That was when he realised what had happened.
Crystal Cars driver Mr Kemp said: ?I take children to the school from villages up on the Moors but it wasn?t them I was hugging and kissing ? it was my own daughters, who are aged nine and 11 and are taken to the school each day by their mother from their home in Malton.
'We have unfortunately separated and I live in Kirkbymoorside, but they always look out for me and run up for a hug and a kiss when they see me arrive with the car, and my daughter also gets in the vehicle to get some of my TicTacs from a door pocket.?
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