Recent content by Andyh82

As did about 3 quarters of the country!

Surprised they are going with a Saturday. The run out is obviously earlier and with a higher PVR than a Sunday.

Is there any retail that isnt suffering at the moment if even Poundland are effected. This thread is obsessed with Middle of the Road brands like TG Jones, and to a lesser extent Boots. Now Poundland are effected, slightly higher end departments stores like Debenhams have already gone, are we...

I recently stayed in a Premier Inn in Reading and this had a Beefeater that was seemingly closed a few years ago and refurbished, maybe as a trial. Basically think of a rectangle and slice it in two three horizontally. The two parts adjacent to the outside walls is now around 4-5 rooms on each...

Do Fernhill Travel still do any FlixBus work? Because I saw one of their Yutong coaches still in FlixBus livery in Oxford (on private hire), yet I’ve never seen this operator on any flix work, unless they do an out of the way service that doesn’t serve London

Since Debenhams closed down, the high end perfume counters are probably quite a money spinner now. Obviously I can’t imagine people here frequent that part of the store. I wouldn’t say all Boots stores are scruffy, people do tend to make assumptions. For example the one in Leeds has just had a...

Lethers didn’t win a tier C contract?

Would the open top bus on Scarborough front really be subject to franchising?

Surely it depends if the concerns raised are investigated and turn out to be valid? Note it only effects the Tier C school contracts, the Tier B public contracts aren’t effected, so it must be something specific about the school contracts aren’t effected process

Yes I agree with all thos Traffic is worse in the dark than in the light, and is worse in the rain than in the dry Mondays and Fridays are lighter in the mornings but Fridays are busy after lunch as those who are working like trades clock off early and often workers may finish at the same time...

I think the difference is that the anti social behaviour now takes place in the middle of the day on busy buses, not just on late night buses Get on a London bus or any city bus, and it’s likely there will be umpteen loud speaker calls on the go, or loud speaker music or TikTok clips being...

I has there ever been a situation like this before where a retailer has split into two parts, one part having to be renamed, but both parts basically selling the same stuff, just in different locations, rather than two different sectors. I’m sure it’s pretty rare. Out of interest, who got the...

It’s lasted a lot longer than many DRT schemes have, I’d assumed it was doing ok. I wonder if Go Thames Valley will find a use for the vehicles or if they’ll get rid

I’m not sure I believe that. Surely sales are down because they were down before and were always going to be down again Who seriously would previously have shopped at WHSmith but the new name put them off, despite it being the exact same store in the exact same location, still with a blue sign...

The current version of light rail, a line from Leeds to Bradford was already paused only last year by Rachel Reeves Brabin seemed ok about it as it apparently gives them more time to do it right. I’m sure she would have said the same had it been the tories who paused it