The store in Dundee has changed its name and logo after more than 15 years, The Courier reports.

Owner Richard Cook said: “We don’t make enough money to take on the Sex Pistols.

“It’s hard to see how we can be a threat to them. They are a global brand with millions of followers from the punk scene all around the world.

“We’re a wee spectacle shop in the smallest street in Dundee, concentrating on serving our customers as best we can.”

Mr Cook said he obtained a trademark for “Spex Pistols” in 2012, but it expired last year.

Glitterbest, which owns the Sex Pistols trade mark, said it had tried to negotiate an outcome which would have preserved the shop’s name.

Mr Cook’s shop is now known as “Land O’Spex” in homage to an old Dundee bakery called Land O’Cakes.