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And this, young t-shirt person, is what I mean... everything in town is so half-hearted and apathetic. People cannot even be rude properly. You wouldn't mind so much if the service was Spectacularly awful. Or if the shop assistants were routinely, viciously sarcastic. At least it would be something to remember. But for the most part, shopping in Accrington is just so much time that passes in a grey, uniform, depressing blurr. Everything is just the same as everywhere else, there is nothing original or unique. Take the Market Hall, The only reason that is still standing when most of the others are long gone is because Accrington couldn't make it's mind up what it wanted to do with it and neither did HBC and both of them prevaricated and prognosticated until, hey presto! it is a Victorian Architectural Gem. So what do the council do with it? Of course, they try to turn it into a pale imitation of Blackburn shopping centre, on the merest fraction of the budget and with absolutely and utterly none of the imagination. And then stand back and wonder why it is a failure.