Parish fury over spelling error on sign

How do you spell horse? A simple question perhaps, but one that seems to have thrown sign designers at Telford & Wrekin Council.

Drivers approaching the Jiggers roundabout have been invited to turn left for "Horeshay" instead of Horsehay.

Dawley Hamlet Parish Council clerk Martin Goldstraw said the sign was an embarrassment to the people who lived there - and hit out at council chiefs for leaving it up for nearly six months.

He said: "The Horsehay sign is embarrassing for the whole area because everyone knows how to spell horse and everyone in Telford will know how it's spelt.

"The really upsetting thing is that it's been there a long time and we have asked the borough council to replace it."

Telford & Wrekin council spokesman David Morgan said money had been allocated in the budget for the replacement and upgrading of signs.

He said the programme was due to approved by the council's ruling cabinet next week and the sign was earmarked to be replaced and corrected after that.

But this is not the first time residents in the area have had to put up with designer's mistakes.

Mr Goldstraw said residents on the Connemara estate in Telford saw their road sign disappear. It was eventually replaced by the council - but with the wrong spelling.

"I don't know why they got the spelling wrong. It's pathetic," said Mr Goldstraw.