HOPES that Station Road in Tidworth would have its expensively laid pavement restored have been put on hold.

The pavement, paid for in 1999 from the Government sponsored single regeneration budget, was damaged for most of its length when electricity workers had to dig up 100 yards of cable in the summer.

Restoration work was supposed to been completed by December. Tidworth parish clerk Janet White told councillors that she had spoken to Richard Spanswick, a county council highways official, about the situation.

He told her that the contractors had complained that the weather was too wet and then too cold.