The saucy seaside postcards which most of us are familiar with are to be featured as part of an art exhibition, 50 years after many of them were banned for being obscene.

The leaders of Eastbourne banned the cards in the 1950s and the man who painted them, Donald McGill, was prosecuted more than once under the Obscene Publications Act.

But now the cards, likely to attract the wrath of feminists because of their cheeky double-entendres, will take pride of place at the Eastbourne Heritage Centre.

Perhaps McGill, who died in 1962, would be pleased his assets were now finally on full display to the public.