Cheap shops such as pound shops etc will kill trade on the markets in any town, people want cheaper goods, no doubt about it, do you get batteries from the pound shop, or do you pay three times as much in the bigger shops..., so life in the markets is gonna loose custom and crowds, i know where my money goes, Burnley just seems dead to me at the moment, if you go on a night out these days down town chances are you'l be mugged, theres more and more cases of muggins in the centre, the telegraph is always asking for witnesses, makes me wonder where all the cctv cameras are pointing if they cant spot somebody being mugged at 1am on st james street, yet if you drop a fag end the cameras are on you like a ton of bricks for a fine...... I think its the same everywhere you go in the uk it just looks filthy...........
You go abroad and the binmen are cleaning up at 1am 2am while you sleep, so much litter, decay, rundown depressing housing,everything is grey in the uk and it needs some colour.......
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