A Newton Abbot high street institution is preparing to embark on a new trading chapter as it adapts to rapidly changing times.

Forty-two years ago Margaret and Stan Sanders took on a failing tobacconist and gift shop in Bank Street.

Today their daughter, Julie Hannan, is set to transfer the now thriving business, one of the last places in the area to sell sweets 'by the quarter', to her newsagents in neighbouring Courtenay Street.

The main reason behind the move is pending legislation designed to prevent children seeing tobacco on sale, a far cry from the days when they could buy a single cigarette on the way to school.

The original shop is just too small to make the necessary changes so Mrs Hannan is instead determined to offer the best of all worlds 100 yards up the road.

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