A 10-YEAR-OLD girl was so fed up with dog fouling she made posters asking the owners to clean up their mess.

Emily Gardner, was overwhelmed with pride when she saw daughter Hailey making the posters after returning home from school.

They put up the three signs in an alleyway between their home, in Pound Bank Road, and Great Malvern Primary School, this week.

Ms Gardner, 46, said: "She came home one evening and said 'I'm going to make some posters.

"We laminated them and stuck them on poles in the alleyway. Another mother from school said well done when she saw us putting them up.

"It's an absolute nightmare in Malvern. It makes me extremely angry. It's disgusting. I don't want to wash it off."

The mother-of-two said they chose the alleyway between her home and Hailey's school because it has a serious problem with dog fouling.

"I work at the school until 5.30pm and we walk back in the dark. There's always dog poo in there," she said.

"We put up three posters down that alleyway, it took five seconds. I am quite surprised that they haven't been taken down.

"I discussed it with the school a couple of years ago and they said they have put signs up before.

"They said they are always taken down. They do have signs on their fence outside the front of the school."

Ms Gardner called on Malvern Hills District Council to put up more penalty signs and replace the ones which had been defaced.

She added she doubted whether any dog owners had been fined the £1,000 penalty on the signs.

Hailey hopes the posters will stop the dog fouling and said she was taught how to make them in IT class.

"Silly people should just stop and pick it up and not leave it there. I have to walk by it with my mum," she said.

Cllr Bronwen Behan, who has responsibility for the environment at the district council, said she would look into Ms Gardner's request for more signs.

"We share concerns over dog fouling which is why we are consulting on additional powers to fine dog walkers if they are caught without the means to clear up after the dog," she said.

"Over 260 people so far have taken part in the consultation and we would encourage residents to continue to give us their feedback.

"Dog fouling is a danger particularly to young children but we rely on people reporting incidents to us.

"So if you do see someone neglecting to pick up after their dog then do get in touch via our website.”

The district council said it could only take enforcement action if they witness someone failing to clean up after their dog, so they need people’s help on providing them with information.

A spokesman said: "Sadly we haven’t been able to catch anyone this financial year, but following public information we were able to issue a fixed penalty someone in Upton in 2015. "

Residents can report dog fouling on the council website by logging onto swict.malvernhills.gov.uk/sw2forms