Jane Eyer banner raises chuckles
Saturday 15th October 2011, 11:30AM BST.
What would Charlotte Bronte make of this spelling howler on display in a Shropshire town?
That is the question being asked in Ellesmere where cinemagoers are being invited to watch a screening of Jane Eyer, but not Jane Eyre, as the classic novellist intended her famous heroine to be known.
Officials at the town hall today said contractors in Stoke-on-Trent had supplied the rogue banner, adding it had raised ‘a few chuckles’ among visitors and passers-by.
The gaffe was spotted by an eagle-eyed Shropshire Star reader yesterday.
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