JUDGES will arrive in Chipping Sodbury next week to assess the town’s floral displays.

Next Thursday (July 13) judges will consider Sodbury in Bloom’s attempts to claim gold.

They will arrive in Broad Street at 10am before meeting Mayor Wendy Whittle and members of the bloom team and looking at the display in No 61.

Following this they will head to Waitrose via the river path, back to the High Street and to the MODA Hotel.

The judges will then be taken by car along Horse Street and around Smarts Green roundabout and on to the Ridings & Millennium Garden, community orchard and finally Old Sodbury Primary School.

Judges will meet with deputy head Sian Padgett at 2pm.