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Not having the anti Tesco argument at all...it's much nearer to walk to than Asda from the current bus station and significantly closer to the railway station. Logically, the proposed bus station would be more beneficial to Asda than Tesco because it would bring it nearer to them than it currently is. It's a moot argument anyway because most high street shoppers with any sense and without their own transport would simply stay in the bus station until the Blackburn or Burnley connecting bus came.

Also not having the anti Whitebirk argument either. Shopping habits have changed and high street shops with their overheads cannot offer the prices that purpose built retail park superstores can. It's so easy to jump in the car, hit the retail park, have a browse, buy something, put it in the boot and continue browsing. If you are after something in particular, check it out online, price it up, order it and simply go and pick it up.

I know there are people like Margaret, who still use the bus, trudge around town and catch the bus home, in reality you should welcome the new bus station, you can get a connecting bus to a town with a proper market and high street like Bury, Blackburn or Burnley, and have a nice cup of coffee in the warmth while you wait.

The only thing that keeps high streets alive around the country are bustling markets..unfortunately consecutive Hyndburn councils have turned our market into a tight wet windtunnel and our high street into a conglomerate of cheap and nasty charity shops (which in many cases pays more to its upper management than its actual charity), bookies, pound shops and empty units with wallpapered windows. On top of this there is apparently no enforcement of littering, open drug and alcohol use or anti social behaviour except for removing benches for the old and infirm to rest their weary bones.

And Ken Moss wants positives???? The mind boggles...Oh wait, he has suggested putting some shops along the canal in Rishton..I guess that would really help to bring people into the town centre.

He bangs on about getting everything he needs from Accrington high street, yet when I challenged him on another thread about where he buys his toys for his grandkids, his books, his laptop etc..etc.. he refused to engage, nor did he comment on the fact that the boxing day sales last year caused mayhem in Blackburn and Burnley yet didn't even raise an eyebrow in Accrington.

But hey..he says 'we all have a miserable outlook on life', and according to him have 'nothing positive' despite thread after thread offering ideas, insight and thoughts, which incidentally he chooses to ignore because none of them agree with his own blinkered view.....a view which is party orientated regardless of what he would have you believe..this is the man who a few short posts ago claimed that an obvious spin intended to deceive, posted on an MP's website was a 'social media mistake'..you couldn't make this up if your name was Jacob Grimm.