Please help keep this shop open
ONCE again our local town centre shops are hit with closure.
I was dismayed and saddened to see Bonmarché based in Blyth’s Keel Row is to close.
This is not just a shop – it’s part of our community and has been for years.
The employees go out to our local community venues , to carry out fashion shows for the elderly and disabled and offer discounts allowing people to shop at their pleasure.
Bonmarché caters for all ages and sizes, offering a wide variety of styles and items.
If this shop closes, there will be another nail in the coffin of the once- thriving town centre of Blyth.
It is one of the few shops left located in our town centre that can cater for disabled and elderly without the need for going out of the town, which some simply cannot do because of mobility problems.
As the manager of a community centre in Blyth, I understand many people do not particularly enjoy travelling outside the comfort of their own town to other centres, with the cost of travel an added difficulty.
I wholeheartedly hope that the community can get together and help sign the petition within the local Bonmarché, and write to the company to stop the closure of this long-running establishment.
EILEEN CARTIE
Resident and community centre manager
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Blythboy
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 08:22 AMThe sad fact of the matter is that at a parliamentary level Labour cannot lose and the others cannot win, thus it is safe to ignore the region. A sustained programme is required to build up the manufacturing base (especially export goods), transform the infrastructure (particularly rail), make the schools a hell of a lot better than they are and sympathetically renovate Blyth centre. The local MPs need to excel at things other than filling in expense forms as well.
Blythboy
Monday, February 27, 2012 at 08:18 AMThe problem with Blyth and other towns in the region is that Labour cannot lose and the ToriesLibDems cannot win parliamentary seats. So it is safe to seignior the area. Sustained and targeted investment in manufacturing is needed (not useless and costly wind-farms), the transport links need to be improved, particularly rail and the local MPs must be pressured to excel in other things than filling in expense forms.
ccb151
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 at 06:24 PMSeveral shops have closed down, others not doing so well, we have practically lost our Market and the fame Blyth had for being a thriving Town and Market Place on the North East coast, Labour Party Members are still blaming Margaret Thratcher for Closing our Pits, Shipyards and running down our Town Centre! When will these people realise that it was their own Labour Government that closed Blyth Shipyard? when will they realise their Labour government have had 13 years in power since 1997 and they done nothing for Blyth during that time? When will they realise it was their own Blyth Valley Borough Council that killed our once famous Market Place? Yes I agree to keeping our shops open, but I am disapointed the writer is only interested in one shop, we should be fighting for all shops and fighting against those who killed our Market Place and Town Centre!
billy1967
Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 12:41 PMI agree that Bonmarche will be a loss. Town centres are in decline all over the place.
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