IT is always sad to see a business fail, especially when a sole trader is involved.

It is also all too easy to blame external reasons for why a business has not succeeded, such as car parking charges or nearby construction work, when it could also be that that business itself was not properly run.

Salisbury is an increasingly vibrant city with many more businesses and shops succeeding than failing and with an increasing number of tourists generating very welcome income.

Perhaps in future the Salisbury Journal should concentrate on the positive aspects of this city and not the negative.

There are many sole traders in Salisbury who work incredibly hard to give their customers what they want and who never appear in your pages.

Perhaps they should. For they deserve a voice that gives a positive message and not an unnecessarily negative one.

David Grove

Endless Models

Salisbury