Business owners have accused the council of being Scrooge, saying part of the High Street is has been left without Christmas lights.
Christmas lights were switched on last week in other parts of the High Street, with the town centre festively decorated. Iain Jubbs, the landlord at the Treaty of Commerce, said: “This area of the high street gets left out for everything. “The council has gone to great expense to build the footbridge and pedestrianise the area, but they don’t seem to want to attract people here.“We’ve been here seven years, and I can’t remember a proper Christmas display in that time.”
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