Richard Page JP was interviewed on BBC Breakfast earlier this week by the BBC. He was featured on the programme because he'd previously refused to agree that placing a child for adoption with a same sex couple was in the child's 'best interests.'

The 69-year-old made that stand in 2014, which led to a disciplinary procedure. He was reinstated to his position but the attention on that case led him to being interviewed this week.

As part of the interview, Page said, "My responsibility as a magistrate, as I saw it, was to do what I considered best for the child, and my feeling was therefore that it would be better if it was a man and woman who were the adopted parents." ...