TO add a further dash of colour Handforth Parish Council is set to approve 18 hanging baskets.

The hanging baskets, which used to be provided by Cheshire East Council(CEC), will be sited along Wilmslow Road.

Parish clerk John Brooks said: "CEC no longer pays for floral displays in towns and villages in the borough, so it is left to the individual parish councils to pay for this service if they require it.

"The floral displays and maintenance work undertaken by the village handyman is HPC’s way of improving the appearance of the Handforth, and not part of any intention to enter a competition as some adjoining councils have."