AN ex-darts player feels like he has hit the bullseye thanks to a new sign pointing the way to his 'hidden bungalow'.

Nick Cook, nicknamed Big Bear from his darts days, has been provided with new signs after delivery drivers kept getting lost trying to find his Warndon home which is hidden behind a big wall. 

Since the signs were installed, the 56-year-old former team captain who lives, appropriately enough, at 180 Cranham Drive, says the takeaway drivers have had no problem finding their intended target.

Worcester News: Big Bear (Nick Cook)Big Bear (Nick Cook) (Image: James Connell/Newsquest)

Now he feels like he has secured a 'double top' finish after his landlord Platform Housing installed not one but two new signs.

One is near the entrance by the main road and one is on the wall itself, near his and a neighbour's bungalow (although he says some youths have been turning the sign near the entrance around so it faces the 'wrong way'). 

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"I feel like I have got a 180 score thanks to this sign. I'm over the moon," said Big Bear who misses his days playing for the Maple Leaf team at Lower Wick in Worcester.

"I can never return to darts now because I have arthritis in both knees," says Big Bear who is touched when teams contact him, asking him to play for them.

Mr Cook, who used to work at JDR Karting in Sherriff Street, has been registered disabled since an accident in June 1999 when he slipped on some oil and a go-cart he was carrying fell on him, breaking the tibia and fibula in his right leg which required 15 operations. 

Thanks to the signs, he said he and his neighbour will no longer have to stand out in the cold, wind and rain until delivery drivers can find the address which is hard to see because of a big brick wall.

"They can find us fine now and they know there are two more houses behind the wall. Before they would phone us to see where we are. We have had three deliveries since they have been here - and all three have got to us," he added.

Previously Platform had asked for £150 for the signs, Mr Cook said.

Cllr Jill Desayrah, who helped Big Bear, said: "I asked Platform to do the right thing and they have. They went that extra mile by putting the sign on the front."

In particular, she thanked Jay Gormley of Platform for the 'additional sign'. Mr Cook said the sign near the entrance has now been turned the wrong way a few times and Cllr Desayrah said she was going to suggest it be put on a wall near the entrance instead. 

Marion Duffy, chief operations officer at Platform Housing Group said: “Platform is delighted to have been able to purchase and fit a new sign for Mr Cook, to ensure that he no longer experiences problems with people finding his home.”