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The countdown is well and truly underway for the long-awaited opening of the John Lewis store in Exeter.

This was the scene this afternoon as contractors pulled out the stops to get the entrance area finished on time.

The TED team will be posting live from outside the store from 7.30am, so if you can't make it yourself, you won't miss a thing.

Exeter city centre manager, John Harvey, told TED: "Clearly there have been some late challenges which have resulted from the interface between the paving work and utilities, and dealing with the significance of buried services underneath the paved area. That has been challenging and of course at the same time the John Lewis contractors need to complete their work and we have also had to maintain access for residents, shops and businesses.

"It has been an extraordinarily difficult site to work with. Barden, the council's contrators, have done a really good job under very difficult circumstances. And there will be some final parts of the scheme - paving at the junction of New North Road and Longbrook Street, commissioning of traffic lights - some of that will only be completed by the end of October."