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Works to demolish buildings on a fire-hit high street are to start.
High Street in Bangor is set to be shut to traffic for two months from Monday so two buildings damaged by a blaze in a flat above a Japanese restaurant in December 2019 can be knocked down.
Politicians have called for businesses, already hit by Covid, to be given financial relief as the road is due to be closed to traffic until Easter.
Gwynedd council said the demolition work will take about 13 weeks.
The council s head of environment Dafydd Wyn Williams said he hoped the road would re-open as soon as possible .
Work to demolish buildings on Bangor High Street damaged by fire will begin next month. The properties, 164 and 166 High Street Bangor, extensively damaged during a fire in December 2019, will be demolished in two parts from February 1. The first part will be to strengthen the road in order to support the crane required to enable the demolition work to proceed. It is anticipated that this first phase will take approximately 7 weeks. Once a crane is located on site then the second phase, the demolition of the buildings, will be able to proceed. The demolition work will take approximately 6 weeks to complete.
A graffiti vandal has defaced a gable wall painting by renowned Northern Ireland artist Terry Bradley.
Hundreds of outraged art lovers and public-spirited citizens posted messages of shock and horror after the artist shared a picture of the Bangor High Street wall painting the vandal had attacked.
He captioned it simply with a sad-faced emoji and one word: Shame.
The culprit spray-painted a crude image of male genitalia across the striking image of a woman gazing over her shoulder entitled Don t Look Back - versions of which sell for up to £1,100 on Mr Bradley s website.
The vandal had even tagged their own unique signature to the adolescent daub - something which led locals to hope the culprit would be easy to identify and bring to justice.