A MATURE student who is outraged at Labour's university top-up fees was disgusted to find a giant poster for the party's Worcester parliamentary candidate outside his home.

Dan Thompson, of Ambrose Court, Oldbury Road, Dines Green, returned from his girlfriend's house on Sunday to find the billboard advertising Mike Foster outside his lounge window.

The 30-year-old, who is studying a degree in social welfare at University College Worcester, said he had only been discussing the election the night before.

"Although I was not happy with Labour, because of the student fees, their emphasis on targets for things like schools and hospitals, and the way they handled the war in Iraq, I was still undecided," he said.

"Now because someone has had the gall to put up such a messy-looking board without my permission, I am decided - and it won't be Labour."

How the board came to be there is still uncertain.

None of Mr Thompson's immediate neighbours has admitted requesting it. "No one else is particularly enamoured by it either and nobody has admitted to asking for it," added Mr Thompson.

"Apparently they were going to put it up elsewhere, but one of the neighbours said they couldn't because it was near his roses. Now I am lumbered with it.

"I have phoned the Labour office, but as it was a bank holiday, I had no reply.

"If it isn't down by tonight (Tuesday) I will take a hammer to it because I feel that strongly about it."

Candidate Mr Foster said the occupant of Flat C had requested the poster, and that it had now been removed.

"We have found a lot of posters are being mischievously moved overnight and this could have been the case here," he said.

"The poster was requested by another resident in Ambrose Court but we removed it as soon as we realised Mr Thompson was unhappy."