Lidl opens big new Devon store

A NEW Lidl supermarket will open in Tiverton next week.

The new store, in Blundell’s Road, will open for the first time on Thursday, February 25.

It will be open from 8am to 10pm Monday to Saturday, and 10am to 4pm on Sundays.

As part of the company’s ongoing £1.3bn expansion and regeneration plans across the country, this store becomes the first in Mid Devon.

The new store has created around 40 new roles for the area and will feature facilities including a 1,325 square metre sales area, an in-store bakery, customer toilets and parking for both cars and bicycles. The new store will be providing surplus food and customer donations to a number of local charities.

A COLD war bunker in Cornwall has been sold for double its asking price at an online auction.

The site, which is hidden in a field overlooking the coast of St Agnes, is accessible through a small hatch and was used from 1961 until 1991 as a watch post by the Royal Observation Corps.

It was designed to keep an eye out for nuclear attacks on the United Kingdom, and has been privately owned since at least 2007.

At the auction, overseen by Adam Cook of Auction House Devon and Cornwall, it was sold to an unnamed new owner

Mr Cook said there was a lot of interest in the site. “It’s quirky, definitely,” he said, “It’s not very big, so I doubt you’d want to spent a lot of time down there or live there.”

“There’ll be a few people with some zany ideas on what to do with this.

After a quick bidding war, the bunker exceeded the original ask price of £25,000-£35-000 and went for £50,000. The bunker goes down 14 feet underground, and is quite a tight squeeze at only a few metres wide in places.