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Sign of the times

A VILLAGE sign has been stolen so many times that residents have clubbed together to buy a stone version cemented in to the ground.

Households in Shitterton, near Bere Regis, Dorset contributed £20 each to the new sign after repeatedly falling victim to pranksters.

Volunteers then arranged a truck and crane to manoeuvre the stone into place.

Ian Ventham, 62, a retired RNLI director, who arranged the whip-round, said: “It was my wife’s idea to carve it out of stone. We have lived here for the last 20 years and during that time the sign has been nicked at least three times.

“We think it was kids who would like to have it stuck on the wall in a den somewhere because its quite an interesting sign.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .