The annual Tidy Towns contest will go ahead next year, according to Minister for Community Heather Humphreys who says she is working on a way it will be able to  resume in 2021. After concerns were raised that the competition, which has run for more than 60 years, could be lost forever if cancelled for a second year in a row during the pandemic

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