Traders facing losing their livelihoods during a major market revamp have been found temporary homes for their businesses.
A £555,000 refurbishment of Angel Place in Worcester was due to start on 1 September, but was put back a week, BBC News has reported.
Last month, Worcester City Council said it had failed to find an alternative site for the market during the three-month work, but now it has said a series of temporary sites have been identified.
Traders - who include fruit and veg grocers - are expected to be split up to sites across the city, including Pump Street, Church Street, Bank Street and parts of High Street.
Duncan Squires, who runs a flower business at Angel Place with his wife, had previously warned his business could be forced to close.
'I suppose in an ideal world yes we'd want to be all together as a market, but it's a lot, lot better to have somewhere,' he told BBC News.
'They should be able to group us in twos or threes, so there's a little bit of a market atmosphere about it.'
Duncan Sharkey, managing director of Worcester City Council said Angel Place market would reopen at the beginning of December, in time for the Christmas trading period.
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