It's clearly a sign of poor spelling

It's as claer as mud, isn't it? Road workers painting a new sign on a Black Country road have left motorists and residents chuckling after their new "Keep Clear" marking ended up rather garbled.

The vowels are jumbled, leaving the instruction "Keep Claer" in large white letters on the road surface in Oak Street, Kingswinford, at the junction with a foot and cycle path that joins the road at that point.

And it has got folk a-twitter – with internet tweets directing followers to look at a picture of the mis-spelled sign posted by Al Jackson on a photograph sharing website.

Dudley councillor Patrick Harley, cabinet member for transportation, said: "We have been made aware that our contractor has spelt the word 'clear' incorrectly.

"The mistake will be corrected as soon as possible by the private contracting company at no extra cost to the council," Councillor Harley added.