[Doug]

Originally Posted by Gayle

I'm sorry but is there only me and Garinda here who can understand what sort of impression this gives of the town? I know it sounds like we're obsessed with 'image' but it means a lot - particularly when you're talking about a town. Tell me, Doug, imagine a town somewhere else in England that you've never visited before, would you make a point of visiting it if you thought it had an image of being a good place to go shopping for guns?

Roy does have a point, unfortunately so does everyone else. What is the opinion of the other shop keepers Gayle and for that matter HBC? Regardless to whether or not they can do anything about it, what’s there view on the matter. Without seeing it it’s hard to comment but I would have thought that Oswaldtwistle had other problems that needed seeing to. The one thing I would ask is, is there an increase in the shooting of wildlife or domestic animals in the area resulting form this advertising are is there evidence that despite the unease your showing the shop owner is selling his stock responsibly, my last point is have you are Rindy gone and discussed your concerns with the shop keeper?