'I feel like I am home': Douglas Village shopping centre reopens after devastating fire

Centre manager Bartosz Mieszala and Cllr Mary Rose Desmond at Douglas Village Shopping centre. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

'Shop local' is the message from Douglas Village traders today, as the benighted shopping centre reopens a year and three months after a fire tore through the building's car park, rendering the structure unstable and leaving the traders locked out of their shops.

Due to the level five Covid-19 restrictions, not all of the shops in the centre are permitted to reopen today.