Plea for ‘real’ shops
An easy way to establish how many ‘real’ shops there are in Chippenham would be to close all the charity shops, burger bars, mobile phone shops and estate agents and see what was left.
I accept that we would still have banks and coffee shops but I think we can live with that.
Ian Dunbar, The Cloisters, Chippenham.
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