Kendal Oxfam has taken over a former town centre café bar in a bid to expand its growing branch across two shops.

The charity plans to transform the former Mint Café Bar, at Highgate, into a second Oxfam store that will stock clothes and accessories, while the current shop next door will sell secondhand books and music.

Oxfam bosses have been looking to expand the Kendal branch, which has the highest turnover of all the South Lakeland stores, as its popularity has left stock competing for space.

Builders are set to descend on the new premises in the next few weeks and it is hoped that the new store will be open for business at the beginning of May.