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Forum: General Chat 04-01-2014, 20:56

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Re: Whitebirk Retail Park People have been shopping elsewhere for years. When the Trafford Centre opened Accrington lost 11% of it's trade. Town centres everywhere are suffering. We have a national high street crises. You...

Forum: General Chat 04-01-2014, 00:55

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Whitebirk Retail Park Guinness wrote d) A fortune is spent on demographics and surveys...you won't find our Graham canvassing in safe areas, except for photo ops, he knows he has these votes, demographics and...

Forum: General Chat 04-01-2014, 00:15

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Whitebirk Retail Park I'll always do my best for the area and will continue to do so with incredible passion. There's nothing party political about wanting progress. There is incredibly strong leadership at the...

Forum: General Chat 30-12-2013, 22:15

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Whitebirk Retail Park I don't think there has ever been a consensus in a decade of various meetings I have sat in with the public, councillors, retailers, interested parties. Everyone sees the common sense of their own...

Forum: General Chat 28-12-2013, 10:22

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Whitebirk Retail Park I don't know how I could have changed things in opposition? I accept responsibility but there has to be a degree of realism. Whilst Accrington's fall from where it was is sad, Accrington is not...

Forum: General Chat 26-12-2013, 22:10

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Whitebirk Retail Park It is difficult when you have never controlled the budget and always been in opposition to do things differently than has been done. Poor decisions have been made for decades and it will take as...

Forum: General Chat 25-12-2013, 23:38

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Accrington has an indoor and outdoor market which people identify strongly with. It may have been a mill town but those days are long gone.

Forum: General Chat 21-12-2013, 14:30

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Re: Whitebirk Retail Park Whilst put cynically, it is fair representation of the challenges. Internet shopping, ease and comfort of supermarkets, business rates, non payment of tax by Amazon etc.. Accrington has simply...

Forum: General Chat 21-12-2013, 11:22

Replies: 200 Whitebirk Retail Park Views: 8,161 Posted By g jones Re: Whitebirk Retail Park I first went to Rovers in 73 but started regularly in 78 and had a season ticket up to 94. Couldn't afford between 94-2000 so went occasionally. Had a season ticket since 2000. My dad is from Mill...

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