WORK has started on a new caf in Trowbridge.

The Boswell Group is to open its latest store in The Shires shopping precinct after shop fitters moved onto the site of the former Chapel restaurant last week.

The unit has been vacant since Mountstevens moved out in July 2002.

Boswells owns stores across the south of England including ones in Chippenham, Swindon, Southampton and Oxford.

Shopping centre manager Steve Murray said: "The caf is at the heart of the mall and will bring back the vibrancy to that part of The Shires."