Plea as charity store returns to Darwen (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Oh a charity shop, not got many of them in Darwen have we?
You can tell how good a shopping centre is by the amount of charity shops - how many in Trafford Centre? Ah well one less take away I suppose.

p.s. I won't be giving anything as far more important things to give to like British Heart Foundation or the old folks one.

Certainly there are far too many in Darwen already. For an area that's very clearly rundown - eg NOT a money belt - maybe they think people have a surfeit of cash to hand out to charity. The whole area needs some kind of 'charity' forget overseas aid. Certainly there are no real shops of any real use in the town centre itself. By that I mean, ones like over in Blackburn. Argos once graced the town centre - now it's a 24 hour drug pharmacy, that so the crackheads can go get their methadone 'prescription' before they mug someone or attack someone so they can go get it quickly before they 'crack' - and plenty of others that would spruce up the town centre. But no, it's charity shops galore, take aways. Get some bloody foresight please on the council and actually GET things that will benefit local people. WhSmiths even got to Clitheroe eventually, time there was on in Darwen. As it stands, the centre is not appealling, it may be appealing to the odd chav who can't differentiate between quality and knows no different having been brought up with all of it, but ... so wouldn't know a roast beef from a kebab if it hit them in the face.

Til you do in Darwen the place will always be unappealing to those living there (the few that aren't chavs) and any visitors. Or do you intend to end up like Blackburn with decades of stagnation ... still incapable of getting the shopping centre nor roads right. Makes you wonder. Really.

davidoff - spot on, that in a nutshell is Darwen! Should put it on trip advisor!