Posh Spice ousted by 'chav queen'

The TV character Vicki Pollard speaks with a Bristolian accent

A pub which switched its sign's image of Queen Victoria to a cartoon Victoria Beckham has changed it again to an image of "chav queen" Vicki Pollard.

Peter Gower-Crane, 36, who has taken over the Victoria pub, in St Werburghs, Bristol, said the track-suited Little Britain character was more up-to-date.

He said visitors to his pub had been smiling and having a laugh about it.

"The Vicki Pollard sign is more modern and has more of a local theme. No-one has said anything bad of it," he added.

Mr Gower-Crane, who took over the pub in March, hired a street artist to recreate the teenage delinquent.

"I gave him a brief and he came back with this finished sign - it didn't take too long," he said.

The Victoria pub hit the headlines in 2002 by a replacing a traditional picture of the monarch with a cartoon of Posh Spice on its sign.

Speaking at the time, the pub's former landlord, Aidan Lynch, said the singer was a more suitable face as she was the more famous of the two.