Market traders, business owners and shoppers are among the 2,500 people to have signed a petition calling for Monmouth's market to be brought back to Agincourt Square.

Campaigners, who gathered outside the Shire Hall with the petition yesterday (Tuesday 15th March), are asking for a public meeting to discuss the future of the market. Town councillors were among the 30-strong group.

Neill Bell, landlord at the Queen's Head, has been collecting signatures for the petition. He said: "60 independent businesses, who are rate-payers, have signed the petition, as have 2,500 individual members of the public".

Mr Bell and others are making a fresh appeal to Monmouthshire County Council (MCC) to move the market to its former home after a statement issued by the council was published in last week's Beacon.

For full story see Beacon 16/03/2011.