BRENTWOOD Town Hall will be shut until 8.30am on Friday after the doors are locked today.

Staff will finish work at 5pm with the building in Ingrave Road remaining closed on Christmas and Boxing Day.

A normal service will resume on December 27 with the premises open from 8.30am to 4.30.

It will be closed again on New Year's Day.

For more information, visit www.brentwood.gov.uk/index.php?cid=2459.