Town welcome sign is hung upside down by council

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Notice anything odd about this Welcome to Chadderton sign?

No, you're not reading this story upside down! In fact, council workers managed to hang it the wrong way up.

A local resident snapped the photo before council workers came back to correct their mistake.

A spokesman for Oldham Council said "a genuine error was made by staff".

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Andrew Robinson, of Chadderton, said he noticed the sign had been put up the wrong way as he passed it on Tuesday.

He said: "They were picking up the old sign and packing it in the van to drive off and I assumed they'd be back to fix that and put that right.

"I checked again this morning and took some photographs because I thought I'd either dreamt it or can't have seen it properly - but the sign was still upside down."