John Lewis To Open New Store!

The Shambles in York.
Will there be a shambles in Preston?

This report in today's retail gazette makes the announcement that John Lewis is planning to open a brand new store... In York.

We're awaiting an announcement later today from Preston City Council about the Tithebarn scheme we've been waiting for for the last decade, the scheme that was going to be worth £650m, a scheme that turned our councillors into stunned uncritical rabbits in it's shining headlights, a scheme that would make Preston the '3rd city of the North West' and solve everybody's problems forever.

John Lewis were meant to be at the centre of that scheme, but all the hints and rumours are pessimistic.

York is a proud city that unlike Preston has done it's best to protect it's heritage. It's made a point of it's history and it's uniqueness.

Preston instead has bent over backwards for developers, going along with their every whim, allowing whole sections of the city to decay while we wait for them to deliver their promises.

Which approach has been most successful? We'll find out later today...