I would like to suggest that next time he visits Daventry he either opens his eyes or teaches his guide dog to talk so it can explain to him what Daventry has to offer as he his obviously blind.

After reading his letter I had a quick walk round our rather quaint market town to see what was wrong.

I realised we aren't a faceless metropolis stuffed to the gills with multi-national shareholder dominated stores that look the same and sell the same products and would all appear to have been trained in the Daventry branch of Tesco surliness.

What we do have is a town centre with an incredibly large percentage of independent traders and only a handful of national traders that understand their customers like to be treated with respect and politeness.

I'm sure if this style of service was so terrible the residents of Daventry would all be shopping in the faceless non-plus metropolises in which he and Daventry District Council seem to think Daventry and its residents want.

N Harper
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