LONG before the start of the 2012 season there is great excitement at Launceston Cricket Club as work gets under way on their long-awaited new pavilion and club house.

When the club moved to its new ground at Lawhitton in 2003, members used a former mobile home as their 'stop-gap' changing facilities.

Now, nine years of serious fund-raising is paying off and on Monday, contractors started work digging the foundations for the new pavilion.

It will mean a busy four months on the site so that the pavilion is ready for the start of the new season at the end of April — because the temporary changing facilities were demolished in a controlled fire before Christmas so that contractors could move in.

The new pavilion will consist of two changing rooms, a kitchen, toilets, a small bar and a social area.

The build process will consist of digging out and then concreting the foundations before the pavilion can be constructed and fitted out.

For the full report, and a round up of the area news and sport, please see this week's edition of the 'Post'.