POLITICAL correctness gone mad - it’s an overused phrase but might just apply to Jason Mawer and his jacket.

Jason says he was asked by a mystery ‘official’ in high-vis to take his jacket off ‘because it may offend’ on a stroll through town on Saturday afternoon.

“I thought she was joking at first,” said Jason, landlord of the Manx Arms on Sheffield Road.

The special one-off Barbour jacket was made for a Who convention and Jason’s partner Lyndsey Smith bought it at auction for his 40th last month.