WHAT a depressing place our town centre looks before opening time.
I was driving through Atherton into Leigh before 9am, not a common occurrence, and the main streets appeared run down and sad.
Instead of welcoming, well-dressed windows half the shops are hidden behind ugly steel shutters.
A sad sign of the times when premises have to look like prisons to keep thieves at bay.
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