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Tadcaster to get new footbridge 'within weeks'

After the main bridge collapsed due to flooding last month, the council have announced that a new footbridge will now be constructed in the town and will be up and running within the next few weeks

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Tadcaster to get new footbridge 'within weeks'

Tadcaster is to get a new footbridge bridge across the River Wharfe - hopefully within weeks.

The road bridge was badly damaged in last months floods - cutting the North Yorkshire town in two

But plans to build a temporary footbridge alongside it stalled when landowners Samuel Smiths Brewery objected to the plans.

But the new crossing will now be built on land the brewery DOESN'T own. Local residents and traders are delighted.

Chris Kiddey reports:

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