FUN for all the family was on offer when a revamped precinct of shops celebrated their reopening.

Shopkeepers in Angel Courtyard, off Lymington High Street, have endured more than 12 months of building work as new units have been built and the area spruced up.

Three new shops are now up and running and the existing five teamed up with them to host a day of celebration.

A jazz band entertained shoppers in town for the Saturday market and balloons, a bubble machine and face painting kept children happy.

Pictured having his face painted by Elle Harding is schoolboy Jonathan Reyes.

Melanie Woodcock, who owns Enigma Furnishings with her husband Simon, helped organise the event. She said: "On some occasions it's been hard to get into the courtyard with the building work going on.

"A lot of people have wondered whether we are going or have closed for redecorating, so the fun day is to say we are still here but we have had a revamp'.

"People are really enjoying themselves and the children are having fun. Hopefully, from today it will get better and better."

Phase one of the building work is now complete and the new shops are a deli, an ethnic and fair trade clothes shop and a gift shop and gallery.

Builders are still working on phase two, which will see about six more shops with flats above completed by the autumn.