A LONG-running campaign to re-install a signpost in a Dorset village has finally been completed.

As reported in the Echo, Sutton Poyntz resident Peter Jones launched the Greenhill Fingerpost Project to restore the vandalised signpost on the junction of Coombe Valley Road and Plaisters Lane.

Now, after months of hard work – including a coating of DNA reactive paint to help police catch any future vandals – the restored signpost has been officially unveiled.

It is also now part of Dorset County Council’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) project.

Mr Jones said he was pleased the sign had been finished.

He said: “The project went a little over budget due to the bracket, but it’s all done now.

“The reason I started the project was because every day I would drive past and it annoyed me nothing had been done about it.

“I got onto the council about it and they referred me to the AONB team, who deal with community signposts, and the project snowballed from there.

“It’s been a long running project and there have been quite a few people who have helped me along the way and I just want to say a big thank you to all of them, and of course to the AONB team.”

The sign contains more than 150 characters, including numbers and letters made of cast-iron alloy metal, all of which were painstakingly painted by Mr Jones.