A sign of the times...

It's always nice when your town's local tourism agency recognises your importance to visitors to the area. Not nice, then, when they completely leave you off the map given to those tourists as happened to a small town in Scotland recently.
But then, another blow.
Just weeks after a town was left off a regional tourism map, its fragile sense of identity has suffered another blow. A sign welcoming visitors to Saltney has mysteriously vanished, apparently stolen to be sold off for scrap.
Saltney mayor, Cllr Klaus Armstrong-Braun, said: "This time it seems we have physically disappeared from the map."
Cllr Armstrong-Braun recently attacked tourism chiefs behind the North Wales Borderlands Wander and Wonder attractions guide map.
He branded the decision to leave Saltney off the map "lame, idiotic, diabolical and pathetic".
The brochure has been produced jointly by Flintshire, Wrexham and Denbighshire councils.
A spokesman for the publication said: "The main intention of the map is to give visitors general assistance in locating a specific attraction and is not designed as a definitive road map.
"Not every settlement is located on the map and in general we include places which have a known attraction or accommodation provision."
Well, funnily enough, all this publicity has probably put Saltney on the map more than it could have possibly imagined. Every cloud has a silver lining then.