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Jan 30 2009 ∞

“ It would be tragic if the ambulance couldn’t find your street if you forgot to include the apostrophe when calling 999, Councillor Mullaney added.

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Birmingham City Council has decided road signs and place names should not have apostrophes. After years spent arguing the finer points of whether Kings Heath should be King’s Heath, or even Kings’ Heath, and if it would be better to call Acock’s Green Acocks’ Green, local authority leaders have concluded the safest thing is not to bother at all.

(Councillor Mullaney appears to be an ignorant b’stard, anyway)

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