THERE must be plenty of road signs across East Lancashire that are past their sell-by date.

Companies and offices close or move on and often there is no-one to take responsibility for removing something that is no longer applicable.

But official signs in Blackburn town centre, for which the council has a responsibility, are a different matter.

The Boulevard bus interchange is a gateway to the area and the council is rightly proud of all the developments that have been taking place in and around it.

So it is rather embarrassing for visitors to be greeted by a board which describes “what Church Street will look like in 2002.”

And then there are the direction signs to the Lewis Textile Museum which closed controversially more than two years ago.

If these signs were hidden in a back street there would be some excuse.

But surely one of the hundreds of council employees who regularly pass these signs could have thought to do something about them.

Now we are told: “Signs for removal have been identified and the council will shortly be starting a programme of removing them.”

A couple of men with spanners might be a better, and swifter, way of getting rid of them.