Education chiefs have been forced to remove a sign from a new multi-million-pound school after complaints from residents.

The new Denny High School, near Falkirk, opened on Monday with its name sign sitting proudly over its doors.

However, residents complained to Falkirk Council after they spotted the name was written without using any capital letters. The sign, which read "denny high school", was installed because architects preferred lower-case writing from a "design perspective".

The sign will now be changed by contractors at no additional cost to the council. The school opened on Monday with 1300 pupils and more than 150 staff moving into the £25m building.

Denny resident Andrew Paterson said there was "absolutely no justification" for using lower-case letters in the school's name on the entrance wall. He said: "This goes against the principles of elementary teaching. I can't understand it because Denny is a proper noun. It should be capital D, H and S."

Falkirk Council yesterday said it was working with the contractors to alter the external sign. A spokesman said: "The architects who designed the four new high schools proposed and preferred lower-case writing for all signage from a design perspective.

"These buildings are places of education and we asked that the signage design be amended to have capital letters at the beginning of words as appropriate."

The new school is part of a £117m project to replace all the town's secondary schools. The local authority has already rebuilt Grangemouth High School, while St Mungo's High and Falkirk High are set to follow. Denny High School is the only one of the three to have been relocated to a completely new site.