Press Release
16/10/2009: Mark Celebrates Good News on Bath Road |
| Local Save Our Small Shops campaigner Mark Coote has been one of the first customers at Bath Road’s new grocery shop, Roots & Fruits, opened today (Friday 16th October) by Colin & Jane Artus. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
12/08/2009: Mark Highlights New Government Threat to High Street and Shops |
| Save Our Small Shops campaigner and local Conservative candidate Mark Coote has strongly criticised the Government’s new proposed changes to planning rules, which will reduce local planning powers to control out-of-town retail development. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
August 2009: Shock Closure of Robert Young's |
| Local campaigner Mark Coote has reacted with great sadness to the news that the Artus brothers, Colin and John, have had to close their florist and produce business on Bath Road. Robert Young's has traded on the busy Bath Road since the 1860's and has been forced to close due to the recession. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
July 2009: Save Our Pubs, Says Mark |
| Local campaigner Mark Coote has thrown his support behind the town’s network of community pubs following the publication last week (July 2009) by the British Beer and Pub Association that 52 pubs per week in Britain were lost in the first half of 2009. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
29/05/2009: Support Our Retail Heritage, Says Mark |
| Prospective Parliamentary Conservative Candidate Mark Coote has traced the roots of some of Cheltenham’s longest established shops as part of the campaign launched last autumn to ‘Save Our Small Shops’. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
29/05/2009: Mark 'Connects' With Community Initiative |
| Mark Coote has thrown his weight behind a new initiative to support the local community across the south of Cheltenham, Cheltenham Connect. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
24/03/2009: The Black Farmer Supports Our Local Shops |
| Visiting Cheltenham last week (Friday), TV’s self-styled Black Farmer, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones, spoke of his early aspiration to own a rural farm and run his own business and the success of his brand of popular sausages. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
11/02/2009: Mark Supports New Bill to Help Small Businesses |
| Local campaigner Mark Coote has given his backing to a proposed new Bill designed to automatically grant business rate relief to small businesses in Gloucestershire and the rest of the country. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
03/12/2008: Support For Bath Road Traders |
| Mark Coote has offered his support to Bath Road Traders at their monthly meeting of the Traders Association, convened by Matth Birch from the Brown Jug. The campaign to 'Save Our Small Shops' was unveiled to traders which Mark and Jacky Fletcher hopes will encourage greater footfall over the busy pre-Christmas period. | Read more |  |
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Press Release
16/11/2008: Tesco Asked to Show 'Small Shops' Support |
| Mark Coote, leading the campaign to 'Save Cheltenham's Small Shops' has written to Tesco boss, Sir Terry Leahy, asking him to ensure local traders in the town are supported in partnership when two new Tesco Express stores open in the New Year. | Read more |  |
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News
14/11/2008: Launch Photographs |
A selection of photographs from the launch of the "Save Our Small Shops" campaign.
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