Article: Moorland road should have nothing to fear

It is difficult to imagine a more unnecessary campaign than 'The Save Moorland Road Traders from Tesco' crusade.

I suggest readers compare the group in the photograph on the front page of the Chronicle, May 29, with the one taken outside of the Belvoir Castle public house featured on the April 17 issue and see how many of the same faces you can identify and note the same names in the copy.

The latter event was to demonstrate against the threatened closure of a pub that would be more suitably named, 'The Forlorn Hope'.

Most of the traders in Moorland Road would be mainly unaffected by a superstore coming to Lower Bristol Road. Their wares and services would not be in competition with Tesco.

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