Unlike this border sign, 17 on the Great Glen cycle route were incorrect, costing Transport Scotland £1,725

A series of Gaelic signs on a popular tourist route in the Highlands have had spelling mistakes corrected eight years after they were installed — because no one had noticed they were wrong.

Transport Scotland has now admitted that contractors cut corners when the signs along the Great Glen cycle route were erected and did not get the official Gaelic placenames body to translate them.

The errors have cost Transport Scotland £1,725 to put right — but probably a lot more in embarrassment.

The mix-up was disclosed in a document released under Freedom of Information legislation.

According to the document, a series of signs were installed in Gaelic on the Great Glen cycle route in 2007. They stayed in place until 2015 when a member