8 March 2014

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THE town centre flower beds will be planted in red, white and blue this year to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the start of WW1.

Under the umbrella title Fields of Conflict, the beds will commemorate symbols of war, the VC, The Sussex Regiment and the tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Flowers baskets in red and white will symbolise blood and bandages.

There will also be more hanging baskets around the town in the coming summer, with 224 baskets compared to the 215 hung last year.

And the residents of Railway Approach have been asked to do their bit to brighten up the entrance road from the station into the town centre with their own displays and window baskets, which will be supplemented with six new poles bearing three-tiered mounted arrangements and six hanging baskets mounted on lamp posts.

The recent appalling weather caused the power supply to the town clock to trip out on several occasions this winter, but the problem has now been resolved and councillors are to decide whether planters around the base of the brick tower would enhance its role as a ‘gateway’ into East Grinstead.