Council scraps apostrophes on street signs

Punctuation is causing problems in computer databases – so officials want to just leave it out

Unhappy residents want their apostrophes back - and say the change will lead to ‘everything going downhill’

Alex Barton
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A council is to phase out apostrophes on its street signs because it says they are causing problems for its computers.

North Yorkshire Council is scrapping the punctuation marks because they negatively affect geographical databases.