Quoted from Greenham Common

This is the thing, other than fashion shops, what does, say, Basingstoke have, that Newbury doesn't?

A better range. More choice.

Quoted from 78

A better range. More choice.

A better range of what?

If I need to shop for something that I cannot find in Newbury, and don't want to buy online, I will go to Reading, Oxford or London (though the congestion charge has massively reduced my trips to London). Basingstoke is nowhere on the list (just above Swindon) partly because I cannot think of anything to go there for.

Quoted from blackdog

A better range of what?

If I need to shop for something that I cannot find in Newbury, and don't want to buy online, I will go to Reading, Oxford or London (though the congestion charge has massively reduced my trips to London). Basingstoke is nowhere on the list (just above Swindon) partly because I cannot think of anything to go there for.

It is personal choice.

Yoo prefer Reading, I prefer Basingstoke.

Quoted from 78

Shoes, Decent clothes, Books, Music, Cafe, Independent shops that make going to a proper town enjoyable.  

Independent shops and maybe clothes (but that's subjective) are two (but how often is that important), but all the rest are available from Tesco, the retail park and the Internet.

Don't forget, I said...

Quoted from Greenham Common

The main reason I don't go shopping in Newbury much, other than to, what often turns out to be fruitless visit to HMV, is that  retail parks provide all I usually need in that regard.  That, and the Internet.

Quoted from Greenham Common

Independent shops and maybe clothes (but that's subjective) are two (but how often is that important), but all the rest are available from Tesco, the retail park and the Internet.

Don't forget, I said...

well, all I can say is that your idea of goinf out to go shopping is different to mine.

Quoted from 78

It is personal choice.

Yoo prefer Reading, I prefer Basingstoke.

My problem with Basingstoke is that I cannot think of one thing I can get there that I cannot get in Newbury - so why go there when I live here.

Quoted from blackdog

My problem with Basingstoke is that I cannot think of one thing I can get there that I cannot get in Newbury - so why go there when I live here.

I go shopping thinking 'Lets spend some cash today' I have no idea if I'll buy something, or nothing. If I see something I like, I'll buy it.
I guess if I only went shopping because I needed something & had made my mind up prior to leaving home what it was & where to get it, then I'd be happy with a lesser choice. For instance, I could, when I need a pair, buy my jeans at Tesco at the same time as shopping for food. However, I find serendipitous shopping far better.

Quoted from jamoza

I know its been there since last year, in that format. On my old website, on the parkway page I have 'http://www.parkwaynewbury.com'

See it here: http://nnutter.co.cc/index.php?p=1_16

I stopped updating that website at the beginning of December last year.

Have it your own way.

However a website does not have to have a new URL to be "a new website"

Perhaps you would like to contact our local newspaper who have a similar story on page 4 this week "Town to become a sophisticated shopping destination". I am sure that they would not have just copied our story without checking first.

I refer you once again to the cached pages on Google, but you will need to be quick.

Quoted from Administrator

Have it your own way.

However a website does not have to have a new URL to be "a new website"

Perhaps you would like to contact our local newspaper who have a similar story on page 4 this week "Town to become a sophisticated shopping destination". I am sure that they would not have just copied our story without checking first.

I refer you once again to the cached pages on Google, but you will need to be quick.

What's new about the website, it seems to be pretty much the same as before.

Obviously I can't remember it word for word though, have they added new sections into it or changed bits?