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Former market trader bids farewell to Market Hall

Georgia Roberts
Political Reporter, BBC Derby
BBC Woman in blue puffer jacket, long brown hair and glasses standing on the balcony of a Victorian building with market stalls on the floor belowBBC
Linda Aston's family have had a stall in the old Market Hall for almost 100 years

For Linda Aston, when the council told her and the Market Hall's other traders that they would have to move out, it was akin to moving out of a family home.

Linda, who has now moved her jewellery business to a shop in Cheapside in Derby, said: "[The council] have taken a family home, in my mind, and stolen all the furniture. It's like, everything's gone. I've got no emotion to it.

"They've ripped the heart out of it. And once the heart's gone, there's nothing left is there":[]}