ULVERSTON has a problem with its dirty posters tower according to a town councillor.

Coun Colin Williams complained that the Brewery Street advertising tower, which was put up to cut fly-posting, had become messy with ageing posters and sticky tape.

The councillor, who runs the Coach House recording studios at Ford Park, said he was also struggling to find as many shops to display events posters as the town "poshed-up", yet the advertising tower was not a decent alternative.

He said: "I think it's a mess, it's in the wrong place and there should be more of them as the town poshes up' we need another one at least outside Clancys. And the existing one needs maintaining if it's going to be there at all."

Coun Dave Miller said the previous town centre manager, Dick Whittington had installed the tower in consultation with Ulverston Town Council which had struggled to find somewhere to put it.

Coun Janette Jenkinson added that she "had never really liked" the tower and it had never been maintained properly.

"It looks really awful and it needs a good clean," she said.

Councillors agreed to write to Ulverston's Market Town Initiative project officer Jayne Kendall asking for the tower to be tidied-up.