[Madhatter]

I don't see the point in having two tesco's so close. Surely it would have been better to have a retail development. Does this mean that Tesco's will build another store in Acrington aswell.
This is your problem up there, Rawtenstall seems to serve a few good sized villages and has an unusually high quality town centre for it's size, I suspect burnley is the same, whereas here small towns haven't and feed bigger towns like accy, which are nuneaton and tamworth here.
If we want something from woolworths or boots we go to nuneaton, if rawtenstall do the go to their woolworth boots etc Accy is in a situation that most towns that size aren't in.