Singhs looking good for shop owner

A corner shop owner who had to remove his “Singhsbury’s” sign after the supermarket threatened legal action has renamed it “Morrisinghs” – and Morrisons has backed him.

After Jel Singh Nagra, 42, took down his Singhsbury’s sign, customers asked him to replace it with an equally droll one as they still called it Singhsbury’s and enjoyed the joke. “It’s just meant as banter. I know 90 per cent of our customers are local. There’s little passing trade,” said Mr Nagra, whose shop is in West Allotment, North Tyneside. Welcoming Morrisons’ response, he said: “I take my hat off to them – well done to them. This is all meant in jest.” Morrisons said: “Mr Nagra and his customers obviously have good taste so we wish him well.”