The Worksop Guardian is acting as a sounding board for residents’ anger after their town was slated in the national press.

Indignant readers have flooded the paper with phone calls, letters and emails after an article by freelance writer Charles Jennings appeared in the Daily Telegraph.

In his piece about the auction of Manor Lodge, a historic local building, he wrote: “To a southerner, the name Worksop has the ring of a leper bell.”

And in the article a picture of the Lodge was placed above one of a local corner shop with the headline, “What’s a nice house like you doing in a place like this?”

But the people of Worksop, Notts, are refusing to let the name of their town be dragged through the mud.

They are calling for the Daily Telegraph to put the record straight.

One reader, John Driscoll – whose house is on the picture, said: “There are lots of us round here who think it is a horrible piece. We are going to write to them and try to get a retraction.

“A few people have even been to see a solicitor to find out what can be done.”

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