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Council recalls typo-ridden pamphlets

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HUDDERSFIELD, England, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A British local council has recalled tourism pamphlets that contained 50 spelling errors, including 20 misspellings of the district's name.

Kirklees Council in Yorkshire County said 7,000 of the pamphlets were recalled from libraries, town halls and tourism information centers after officials discovered they were rife with typos and spelling errors, The Sun reported Thursday.

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The errors included the name of the district being misspelled as "Kirtles" 20 times.

Other locations misspelled in the pamphlet included the town of Holmfirth as "Holsworth," Cleckheaton as "Czechisation" and Kirkburton as "Kirkpatrick."

The council said the mistakes came from an automated spell check used by the private printer employed to create the pamphlets, which were designed to inform tourists of bike routes, bike shops and riding clubs.

"We apologize for any offense caused by the errors in the leaflet, and we have now put in place additional robust steps to our processes to prevent a similar mistake happening again," a council spokesman said.

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