Tony Bryer wrote:
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:09:57 +0000 Gropius Riftwynde wrote :
If it cost you £4 a mile to travel, would you use teh car toi
opo diwn te shops to get a newspaper?
And if you were a pensioner, with no local shop?

If transport was £4 a mile people in villages would have kept using
their village shops so they wouldn't have closed.

Precisely.

Here where the nearest national brand supermarket is 10 miles away it
costs 6 quid roughly to make the trip..

we have three healthy village stores withing 4 miles..