A DILEMMA in the North York Moors village of Appleton-le-Moors is to be settled by residents, who are being asked to put forward ideas for its long-disused village reading room.
Parish council chairman Peter Smith said that while the building has not been used for many years, residents believe it should be retained.
"It was given to the village decades ago and it belongs to the village," said Mr Smith.
"The general feeling is that we should keep the building but it does need refurbishing," he said.
The reading room was used for generations by men in the village to while away the evenings playing snooker, billiards, darts, dominoes - and reading newspapers.
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