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Towns hit or under supermarket threat
Petition final tally: 5,300 signatures See our reaction to the cattle market report. Click on the picture to see the BBC interview Visit Keep Louth Special on facebook ***** Tesco wins Sheringham fight – see news Towns hit or under supermarket threat: Hexham, Castle Douglas, St Neots Warminster, Exeter, Dumfries Fakenham, Stafford, Winchester Market Rasen, Dorchester, Barnsley Hertford, Halesowen, Newport Driffield, Newbury, Kendal Withernsea, Guildford, Falkirk Uttoxeter, Devizes, Stourbridge Nantwich, Haywards Heath, Northwich Diss, Maidstone, Lancaster Wantage, Maidenhead, Scarborough Weston-Super-Mare, Woking, Doncaster Wokingham, Hitchin, Cheltenham, Bury St.Edmunds, Burgess Hill, Brigg, Bathgate, Kircaldy Northampton, Torquay, Pontefract Market Harborough, Asford Gainsborough Have your say Join Us and keep Louth off this list. Click here to fill in our sample letter to send to your councillor.
Petition final tally: 5,300 signatures
See our reaction to the cattle market report.
Click on the picture to see the BBC interview
Visit Keep Louth Special on facebook
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Tesco wins Sheringham fight – see news
Towns hit or under supermarket threat:
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Shaping Louth's Future
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ELDC Policies are Flawed
Louth Food Bargains
Why supermarkets are yesterday’s vision (continued)
Keeping it healthy to keep it special
Louth has 1,000 year-old roots as a market town, and has had a cattle market for 500 years. These businesses have helped spawn the town markets, the food shops and most recently the farmers’ market. It’s hard to believe that our elected representatives at East Lindsey could so easily conclude that livestock sales have no future in their hurry to sell the district’s property crown jewels. But these businesses do need to meet changing customer needs. We need a coordinated evening opening. We need a joint website where local food can be ordered, and collectively delivered to those who cannot get in during the day. The town’s small shops need to get access to the tools to meet the demands of busy families. The market needs to be spruced up, the cattle market used more effectively as an agricultural forum on many more days a week. Keep Louth Special has plenty of ideas in that regard, and is researching funding resources.
What we plan to do with your funds
Keep Louth Special’s fund-raising concert on February 8th, was a great success. It raised over £2,000, thanks to the many acts which gave their services for free, Fulstow Brewery which donated beer, and all the other contributions from individuals and business across the town. Most of the money will be put aside into a fighting fund should we ever need to use lawyers to fight a planning or local authority decision, but we’ve also got overheads in printing, photocopying, website and so on. We also need some money to pump-prime the other projects mentioned above, even if we ultimately are able to access funding. Many funding sources, for example, will only match the money you spend yourself.
Nick Louth 19 Feb 2009
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