The battle to save our high streets: the experts' view
IT was once somewhere where you could happily potter around for an afternoon, locals say.
IT was once somewhere where you could happily potter around for an afternoon, locals say.
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By Judith Duffy
But now – like many other high streets in Scotland – the centre of Dumbarton is blighted by empty stores and an ever-declining number of shoppers.
A community campaign has been launched to come up with ideas about how to regenerate the town centre. Karon McCreadie, one of the founders of Save Dumbarton High Street, says: "It is a bit deserted and run down. When we asked people what they wanted to see in the High Street, it was butchers, bookshops, stationers – all the wee individual shops that used to be there."
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