Blunder sees boy registered as girl

A furious mum reckons her son will be a laughing stock - after being wrongly registered as a girl.

Rachel Chick, 22, demanded a fresh birth certificate giving the correct sex of little Ieuan James Jones.

But she claims an official told her the mistake was permanently logged in their computer and could not be changed.

Instead, they issued her with a new document listing nine-week-old Ieuan as female on the front - with a correction on the back stating he was a boy.

Rachel said: "With a name like Ieuan James Jones how could they possibly mistake him for a girl? It's going to be so embarrassing for him when he gets older. People are going to think he's had a sex change."

Officials at Treorchy, South Wales, insist the error was dealt with "according to handbook instructions".