Small businesses have never had enough help to survive, so continue to struggle, some more successfully than others.

It's small businesses that make the community spirit of each area. The personal touch we get from the intimacy of a small shop is so worth protecting.

A couple of friends came over to Brighton a week ago to celebrate my birthday, and Bona Foodie took a lot of trouble to give us the personal touch.

It made the occasion so memorable and fun.

Without care, our neighbourhoods could lose this very valuable, essential part of our lives.

If we lose our post offices also, our English character becomes changed for ever.

  • Ann Wilton, Tyson Place, Brighton