{"id":554559,"date":"2025-11-07T06:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554559\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T06:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:39:11","slug":"residents-fuming-over-kirkby-misspelling-on-areas-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/554559\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents fuming over Kirkby misspelling on area&#8217;s roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">People in one of Merseyside&#8217;s best-known towns have said the misspelling of Kirkby on road markings and signs is &#8220;disgraceful&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">There have been several sightings of Kirkby being incorrectly spelt as Kirby, including four mistakes on the M58 junction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Plans are under way to correct the errors, the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) understands, after approaching National Highways and Sefton Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kim Bradshaw, 22, who noticed the incorrect spelling four times whilst driving on the roundabout near Maghull Lane in Sefton said: &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a joke, really.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People in one of Merseyside&#8217;s best-known towns have said the misspelling of Kirkby on road markings and signs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[748,393,4884,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-554559","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-liverpool","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115507047063206394","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}