[jaysay]

Reading this thread it appears that all the town centre ills started in 2000, it didn't. early in this thread Rindi mentioned tumble weeds in the town centre, a statement I used around 1994 in a letter to the Observer, when I referred to the then Labour top heavy council was hell bent on selling every asset and plowing the money in the golden cow at the Globe Centre, instead of investing it in the town centre, Labour started the Juggernaut of town centre decline, something which is very hard to reverse