A FORMER Woolworth’s store is set to open ahead of schedule.

The Best of Oswaldtwistle Mills store, in Broadway, Accrington, is opening tomorrow at 9am, a week before the original opening date.

Fifteen local people have been employed by the new store, which will sell a selective range of women’s fashion brands, local favourites, as well as bigger brand names.

Among the fifteen full and part-time recruits are four ex-Woolworths staff from the Accrington, Burnley and Bolton stores.