EMBARRASSED Medway Council staff have posted a batch of electoral forms with the wrong addresses after hazarding a guess as to which town they are in.

The review of Medway's unitary authority meant that the forms had to be sent out in a hurry with some postal towns left blank. People on Rochester's Warren Wood estate were baffled when the official document dropped through their letter boxes over the weekend.

One of them was Paulette Cox, of Warren Wood Road in the heart of Rochester, who found she apparently lived in Chatham as did her daughter Jill, who lives in neighbouring Orion Road.

A council spokesman apologised for the mistake and blamed it on "human error". He said: "There are no cost or legal implications as the errors can be corrected in the register itself. Medway has undergone massive reorganisation as the Local Government Commission for England reviewed Medway's electoral arrangements.

"Due to the short timescales involved and due to the fact a number of addresses were left blank, staff had to insert the postal town themselves."

*In the build-up to the last general election Medway Council faced embarrassment when it sent out a batch of polling cards with the wrong voting times. Thousands of cards had to be reprinted at a cost of £3000.