PETERSFIELD Town Football Club chairman Ian Essai this week branded the town council's decision to take on the maintenance of a controversial fence separating the club from the new skatepark at Love Lane as a "sham".

Town councillors last week agreed to take on the maintenance, but Mr Essai said: "The reason they are taking it on is because they know it is a sham. And it is at the cost of the taxpayer."

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