Toys spell embarrassment

They were billed as being designed to stimulate and educate young minds.

The only trouble was, the alphabet building bricks contained howlers that even the most academically-challenged schoolboy would have been embarrassed over.

Next to a picture of a brolly was the word `Umberlla' and a boat was accompanied with the word `Yatch'. There was even an `X' Mas Tree.



Suzanne Toulson, who bought the bricks at Morrisons, in Dukinfield, for her nine-month-old grandaughter Millie, said: "There are only 26 words on these toys. You'd think they'd be able to get them all right."

The £3.22 toys were made in China and stocked in many of Morrisons 382 stores But despite the misspelled words, store bosses initially refused to take the toys off the shelves.

Mrs Toulson, of Cheetham Hill Road, Dukinfield, was told that replacement toys without the errors were on order but stores would continue to sell them until stocks had run dry.