ANOTHER road sign is to be removed in the North-East after a legal challenge by an unsuspecting motorcyclist who was clocked for speeding.

The 40mph sign in Worsall Road, Yarm, near Stockton, will have to be taken down after a camera caught Anthony Alderson doing 41mph.

If that was the legal limit, the camera would not have picked it up because it allows for a margin of error.

But he was stunned when officers told him it was a 30mph zone.

Mr Alderson said they refused to accept his story and denied the sign was there.

He is now planning to appeal against the £60 fine and three points on his clean licence of 30 years because he said he was travelling onlyone mph over the limit.

This follows the removal of several signs across the region after two policemen were let off their speeding fines because the wrong sort of border was on speed camera signs.

Mr Alderson, 47, of Hind Street, Stockton, was caught by the camera on August 16.

Stockton Borough Council chiefs and Cleveland Police confirmed that the road in the High Street to the Willey Flatts is 30mph before becoming 40mph.

A spokeswoman for the council said: "The man caught in the trap was going in the opposite direction and this sign would not have been noticed.

"The man who was caught was a local resident who just happened to know it was there.

"We are taking steps to have the repeater removed."

A spokeswoman for Cleveland Police advised Mr Alderson to write to them if he disagreed with the speeding ticket.