diff --git a/app/templates/views/notifications/notification.html b/app/templates/views/notifications/notification.html
index f9ffe85ef..12663f3fc 100644
--- a/app/templates/views/notifications/notification.html
+++ b/app/templates/views/notifications/notification.html
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
         </p>
       {% elif notification_status == 'validation-failed' %}
         <p class="notification-status-cancelled">
-          Validation failed – {{ message.title | safe }}. {{ message.detail | safe }}
+          Validation failed. {{ message.detail | safe }}
         </p>
       {% elif notification_status == 'technical-failure' %}
         <p class="notification-status-cancelled">
diff --git a/tests/app/main/views/test_notifications.py b/tests/app/main/views/test_notifications.py
index 9e1c1bcdf..69e1da316 100644
--- a/tests/app/main/views/test_notifications.py
+++ b/tests/app/main/views/test_notifications.py
@@ -331,9 +331,10 @@ def test_notification_page_shows_validation_failed_precompiled_letter(
     )
 
     error_message = page.find('p', class_='notification-status-cancelled').text
-    assert normalize_spaces(error_message) == \
-        "Validation failed – Your content is outside the printable area. " \
-        "You need to edit page 1.Files must meet our letter specification."
+    assert normalize_spaces(error_message) == (
+        'Validation failed. You need to edit page 1.'
+        'Files must meet our letter specification.'
+    )
 
     assert not page.select('p.notification-status')