AS regular visitor to St Mary's Market, I would like to add my comments to those published in the Star in recent weeks.

In the last six months or so I have noticed how many stalls have become empty only to be occupied for a few months again before becoming empty again. On asking about this on one of my visits I was told by more than one trader that in excess of 30 traders have been trading in the market and then left in the first 18 months.

I must admit to having great sympathy for the traders, who seem to have been knocked from pillar to post over the last three years .

May I just ask two questions if someone would like to give me a logical answer?

Why after building a £6 million market and then building a £12 million glass museum on the opposite site of the road has that road (Chalon Way) been closed?

And then why could that road (Chalon Way) not be opened again, even if it was as a bus lane only to enable older people to have access to the so-called front of the new market?

Then maybe our market traders would give their customers a smile and a bit of banter again.

J Hunt, St John Street, Ravenhead.

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