SO, another sad loss to the city centre. John Irvin is giving up selling cards from the stall he has worked on for 28 years.
The opening of a Paperchase card shop opposite will not have helped, but John also offers a fairly stark memorial on the state of our city centre. People only come into town now for a coffee or a mobile phone, he suggests. Spot on, we agree.
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