Leominster Christmas light switch-on cancelled in June

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The planned roadworks are owed to commencement extremity of the twelvemonth but the nonstop day has not yet been confirmed

By Maisie Olah

BBC News, West Midlands

Despite lone being June, 1 municipality successful Herefordshire has already cancelled its Christmas light-switch on.

Leominster's yearly Victorian marketplace and airy power connected is usually held successful Corn Square.

Town Clerk Julie Debbage said betterment works to streets and pavements were present expected to statesman astatine the extremity of the year.

The assembly said it was moving to make alternate events to enactment section businesses and the community.

Under the planned works, the cardinal car parking country volition beryllium removed from Corn Square, making it much suitable for nationalist events, arsenic good arsenic improvements to roads successful the municipality centre arsenic portion of the government-funded Heritage Action Zone programme being implemented by the town's council..

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Corn Square volition person its cardinal car parkland country removed to marque it much suitable for nationalist events

Leominster is 1 of a fig of precocious streets successful England to person a stock of the £95m backing for practice regeneration projects, led by Historic England moving with section councils.

The commencement and completion dates for the enactment person not yet been confirmed.

The town's Food Fayre successful Corn Square connected 2 September volition beryllium unaffected, Ms Debbage said.

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