[garinda]

I'm in two minds about Tesco's non-arrival in the town.

I hate the delapidated Fire Station, and can't wait for something to be done with the site.

However I simply loathe supermarkets with a vengence.

Every town, in every county of England, looks exactly the same. Full of the same big multi-national stores, and hardly an independent shop left.

I fear Ossy, and many other once thriving small towns, will become like the satellite towns outside of London, and the south-east. No more high streets with a butcher, baker, and candlestick maker. Just estate agents, hairdressers, and off licences, that serve the transient population, who commute to work, and do their shopping once a week by car, at the dreaded supermarket.

I doubt that anything can be done to halt this decline, as people's lifestyles have changed forever.