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April 9, 2008
Cheers to pub decision
I am glad to see that common sense has prevailed and that plans for another pub in Uxbridge town centre have been rejected.
It just didn't make sense to bulldoze a number of long established businesses in The Arcade in the High Street and replace them with a massive Wetherspoons pub.
These businesses have been at the heart of the town centre for many years and appear to be well supported by customers. In my opinion they provide a far greater attraction to the town than a giant lifeless Wetherspoons pub.
I was also amazed by the statement from Wetherspoons that the threatened shops would be able to relocate elsewhere in the town - quite where I would like to know and I am sure they would!
Unfortunately the decision to scrap the pub plan was made last night and too late to be included in this week's Gazette. However, you can read the story online and we will be following it up in next week's paper.
My postings have been rather sparse lately - not because there has been nothing say about the Gazette but it's been rather busy here with a number of things going on which have prevented me from having the time to write on a regular basis.
Back to this week's Gazette and it features more than 200 pictures of all the shortlisted finalists in our Top Toddler competition along with the chance for readers to vote for their overall favourite.
As usual I am sure this will prove extremely popular with readers and I expect the votes to flood in.
This is the second week running we have featured the Top Toddlers in the paper and I know for sure that our Production Editor is breathing a heavy sigh of relief that nothing has gone wrong - because believe me there is plenty of scope for that to happen!.
Posted by aseal at April 9, 2008 11:21 AM
Comments...
Forgive me, but are you the same Adrian Seal who also writes for The Guardian?
Comment posted by: Roshan Doug at April 15, 2008 5:56 PM