Tony Pringle, who used to run the Five Bells and now lives in Windsor Road, has been campaigning for the wooden plaque, which is currently being looked after in the Exning Road Club, where it has been for the past 13 years, to be displayed so the public can read the names of the 26 people whose memory it honours.

The plaque was part of a small memorial garden in Exning Road close to Newmarket College but because ownership of the land could not be legally established it is currently boarded up having been absorbed into a site which is being redeveloped for housing.

Consecrated in 1950, it commemorated residents of Exning Road who were killed during the Second World War, including four people who are believed to have lost their lives when the town's High Street was bombed in 1941.

"The plaque is being well looked after in the club but it needs to be somewhere the public can see it," he said.

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