SWIMMERS and gym users are being advised that the Taro Leisure Centre at Penns Place is closing tonight (March 2) at 6pm so staff can get home safely in the snowy conditions.

The announcement follows news that Petersfield Post Office closed at 2pm for a similar reason, and other shops and organisations are also closing early today as the snow resumes.

And the screening tomorrow of the film Monsters Inc in The Studio at The Petersfield School has also been cancelled due to the weather.

And as the town shuts up shop it once again starts to resemble a ghost town, much as it has done for the past two days from later afternoon onwards.