[Margaret Pilkington]

The way things are going in Accrington, the town centre will be a ghost town.

What has to be remembered though is not everyone has a car, or access to one.
Not everyone is glued to the Internet, or has a smartphone.

I received my letter yesterday about the closure of the Accrington branch of the Yorkshire Bank.
In the letter was a leaflet about telephone banking and internet banking.
This bank still has customers that are in their eighties........they do not find telephone banking or Internet banking easy or convenient.
Yes, they are a minority, but they still want to be able to have this service.

Out of town shopping parks are fine and dandy if you have transport, they are not much good if you haven't.
It would be advantageous to these retail parks for them to fund bus services.....or at least subsidise services.
That way they tap into a seam of customers that would find their outlets out of bounds purely because they can't get there.

I don't mind an occasional visit to shopping outlets, but they have very little character, no soul and in my opinion can be pricey(because they have wiped out the competition from the town centre - once you do that you can charge what you like).