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Security guards questioned the couple in front of a crowd after seeing them in the toilets at Cineworld in Clements Road, Ilford, according to 28-year-old Tracey Seaton. She and girlfriend Keira Williams, 27, were treating themselves to a post Christmas day out on December 27. But their trip to see Annie was ruined, and Tracey, who lives in Barking, says she is now scared to use public toilets on her own. “It’s just outrageous,” she said. “I have never felt so humiliated in all my life. For the first time ever I feel ashamed of being myself. They should treat...

Here's look no. 1 at the city's new pay toilets. The first of 20 new public potties, which will soon offer New Yorkers relief for the price of a quarter, was unveiled in Brooklyn yesterday. The Space Age loos, which look more like elevators from the outside, are self-cleaning and dispense liquid soap and hot water. They are part of the city's joint campaign with a Spanish company to spruce up the streetscape. But while new bus shelters and newsstands may look good, strategically placed comfort stations will be a boon for bladders. "When you gotta go, you gotta go,"...

BEIJING -- Authorities here are always eager to show off their accomplishments, so when Beijing hosted the World Toilet Organization conference last week, delegates were given a grand tour of the city's toilets. "But this was not just any restroom. A Viennese waltz floated around the room, ''to relax and help patrons,"