CREDIT crunch? What credit crunch?

All I have heard over the past couple of months is recession this, recession that, credit crunch this, credit crunch that, but last weekend I was over at Middlebrook and the car park was almost full, with every stored packed with people buying endless presents and a Santa (isn’t there only supposed to be one?) in half the stores.

On Thursday I was in town visiting a certain high street store that had a pre-Christmas sale on (haven’t they all?) and you would have thought Bolton had won the lottery judging by the queues at the checkouts?

James Hawkins, Heaton