Work got underway this week to improve the area around the war memorial which stands in front of the town hall.
The facelift is expected to take up to four weeks and will include laying new paving, refurbishing and repainting the posts and chain fencing, installing new fencing to the boundary walls and restoration repairs to the York stone steps.
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