Councillor fined for covering road sign
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• Royton, Lancs, magistrates were told that because a local Liberal councillor wanted to keep heavy goods vehicles out of the town centre he covered a road sign with one of his own as a means of directing traffic on to a major road by-passing the town.
Cllr Peter Jepson, a Liberal member of the new Oldham District Council, was fined £20 after pleading not guilty to illegally obliterating a traffic sign. Defending, Mr P. Bagley, told the magistrates that 23-year-old Cllr Jepson, of Ashgrove, Royton, had collected petitions, written to various local authorities and talked to his MP about the matter of inadequate road signs.
Mr James Milhench, chairman of the magistrates. told Cllr Jepson: "If every Tom, Dick and Harry did this, we would have chaos on the roads."