Dear High Street resident, I am responding to your letter in the Review entitled  Alternative View.

The town is dying, it is being crippled by the activities of the Midcounties Co-operative it has taken shops from the High Street and incorporated them within its store, therefore contributing to the downfall of the of the High Street.

When the Midcounties Co-operative came to Dockham Road, it promised the town money for regeneration of the town.

It has never come up with this money. All of this taken into account, I fail to see how you say they have served it well, it has lied and cheated the people of Cinderford and Forest of Dean.

I have noticed that you cannot see what good a supermarket would do for Cinderford, but you would be ok with a small Waitrose or Marks.

Do you not get it? We need cheaper shopping and jobs to bring the town back to life, the Co-op is expensive enough, you want even dearer shopping. Get real.

You refer to Monmouth. It has empty shops, it also has its share of supermarkets as well as a thriving high street, certainly compared to Cinderford anyway. There is room for it all.

You say that not everybody wishes to shout and march to air their views, at least we show our faces and are prepared to put our names to what we do, not hide behind the name of High Street resident, Cinderford.

We need a supermarket that will compete with the Co-op, any supermarket. It is only Asda that is prepared to invest in Cinderford, right now.

If the bigger name supermarkets and shops keep getting turned down because of the Co-op, they will give up on Cinderford.

– Adrian Lane, Coleford.