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Dear Maggie915 thank you for your letter informing us of an opportunity to invest in your Town, however after contacting your County Council regarding this matter they have stated categorically that any investment whatsoever in the Wansbeck constituency must go into..... Ashington. We hope this clears up the matter and just like your representatives at County HQ and Westminster, we don't want to hear from you again!

This is my first post on the forum as the way that Tescos has treated the town disgusted me enough to search out a forum to gauge just how people are feeling. Unsurprisingly there is a lot of anger from residents who feel that Tescos have let the town down. When it was announced a while ago that Tescos were going through a tough time, profits not being in the billions instead of the millions I suppose, I was naive enough to think that the Bedlington store would be unaffected. Lets be honest, Bedlington is hardly blessed with wonderful shopping facilities and I wrongly presumed that any company with common sense would realise that providing a good store would be an easy way to make a profit. Customers who don't have their own transport are handcuffed to the choice of a small Morrisons or mediumish Tescos for supermarkets and I thought Tescos would remain. Obviously I was wrong. I suppose the warning signs have been there a while. The pyramids were built quicker than the Tesco development progressed and the old Co-op next door (3 floors no less!) has been used it would seem as a storeroom instead of being redeveloped and opened as a clothing/electrical etc option of the company. I use the store every couple of days for basic food shopping and picking up the odd option ordered online using the Click and Collect service but would gladly purchase more if the options were available. As with all companied closing its the human cost that is most distressing. The staff must be devastated and I have always found them friendly and helpful. I hope that a new company will move into the premises and provide them with continued employment as well as us shoppers with somewhere to buy groceries as well as other goods. The prospect of another building sitting derelict is far too depressing to contemplate. Anyway, sorry if I have made the same sorts of points as people have already made but I just wanted to express how I was feeling as I am proud of this town and rather annoyed at Tescos. I don't want to pick the town apart anymore in this post so maybes on another visit I can talk about the lack of toilets, dog muck issues etc. I am a positive person by the way so I am counting down the days until major investment arrives and this thread is a thing of the past.