ARGOS is under pressure to recall glass-topped patio tables that have "exploded like bombs" in the sunshine.

Customers have complained to the retail giant about a particular glass-topped patio table they say has shattered in hot weather.

One mother, Lindsay McGladdery, from Devon, said her son, four, and niece, two, narrowly avoided injury when the glass in her £199 Argos Sicily table exploded.

She told The Sun: "These tables are dangerous and potentially deadly. They need to recall them.”

Others have taken to social media to post photographs of their broken tables.

An Argos spokesman said: “We’ve apologised to Ms McGladdery for her experience, which wasn’t up to Argos’s usual high standards.

"The safety of our customers is extremely important to us and we’re investigating what caused her table to break.

"We’d like to reassure customers that incidents like this are rare and all our products have to meet our high safety standards and pass extensive independent testing.

"We’re arranging a full refund and to deliver a new table set of her choice.”

Glass in these types of tables can break for a number of reasons but the most common cause is when the surface has been weakened by a knock, chip or scratch and then left in extreme hot or cold temperatures.

In the rare event the glass does break, it is designed to shatter in the safest possible way — with no large shards which could cause serious injury.

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