AN ARTISTIC activist has placed his own colourful pictures on blank road sign stands on the A484 from Newcastle Emlyn to Llangeler.

Eight new 50mph sign posts have been erected by Carmarthenshire County Council even though on the same stretch of road there are four already empty signposts, none of which were used to mount the new signs.

More have appeared in the Pencader/Llanllwni area and 15 in between Carmarthen and Kidwelly making an estimated 100 empty signs in Carmarthenshire in total.

The activist, who does not want to be named, said: “If they are there, use them. If not, take them down. Carmarthenshire County Council says that they will be used in the future, when is that future?

“Google Street View shows that the majority of these signposts have been empty for at least five years.

“The council is saying one thing and doing another. What is going on?

“They removed one of my pieces of art work the other day of a clown with hair like Donald Trump. People like seeing them and I’m only doing it to highlight the fact that we live here because it’s beautiful and an empty post blots the landscape.”

Carmarthenshire County Council didn’t respond by the time the paper went to press.