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"HYDE'S GONE- JUST LIKE THAT!"

Forget Tommy Cooper, David Copperfield, Siegfried & Roy and even the astonishing David Blaine, when it comes to performing ‘street magic’ where conjurors employing the practiced art of using smoke and mirrors and stunning sleight of hand trickery in order to makes things disappear, look no further that your local Labour Tameside councillor.

Obviously not content with making both Denton and Hyde’s outdoor markets all but disappear, they are now planning to perform another awesome illusion, by making Hyde’s multi-storey Car Park vanish and in its place, allow the building of a drive through Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet!

Now I don’t know about you, but I cannot remember this being announced in the ‘Plans to improve Hyde’ can you?

 

Now don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against KFC in principle, but you have to question whether adding a drive-through fast food outlet, will be the grand attraction that will see thousands of new visitors flocking to sample the few remaining retail shopping delights of Hyde.

"I was here first!"

 
It also begs the question, especially when you consider that our ‘town sorcerers’ have already thrown £1.3million creating an empty space, where these shoppers, both new and old, are going to park, because by removing the multi-storey car-park, there will only be 66 town centre on-street parking spaces left. 

It will only take the managers of Morrison’s to follow the example of ASDA and introduce a tariff controlled time restricted element to what is presently a free car park, to herald the final retail death knell of the once bustling Market Town of Hyde!