DETERMINED shopkeepers have promised to return to business “as quickly as possible” after a devastating fire ripped through the front of their Andover convenience store.

Mayur and Nilam Patel, owners of The Saxon Fields Store on Kiel Drive, have said they even plan to postpone their 25th wedding anniversary celebrations in order to get their shop up and running again.

The couple, who have owned the store for nearly seven years, were woken up shortly before midnight on Monday to the terrifying news that a fire had broken out inside their shop.

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