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Woods Newsagents to close after 27 years

Dorothy Wood, here smiling, but sad to be leaving.

Dorothy Wood, here smiling, but sad to be leaving.

Woods Newsagents, run by Dorothy and Keith Wood for 27 years in Bohemia Road is to close. ‘We’ll be gone by the year end’, said Keith. Dorothy said that although she’s keen to get on with her gardening, she’ll be sorry to leave as she enjoys the busy life of a newsagent. ‘I’ve been spending every Wednesday and Sunday afternoon in my garden – now I’ll be spending a lot more time”. Dorothy, who celebrated her 80th birthday in February this year, added that she also wants to get on with some painting and wallpapering at home: ‘There’s nothing in the way of household jobs that I can’t turn my hand to’. Keith hasn’t yet decided what he wants to do. ‘We’ll be running down the shop stock and selling off any remaining items to other shops’, said Keith. Friend of the Woods Bill Third, commented ‘It is more than just a shop – people, young and old, come in and pick up the local news and gossip. Even a stool is provided. Currently, Bohemia’s postmen unload their bags each morning and store them in the shop – where will they go now?. Dorothy & Keith provide the sort of service an impersonal, out of town shop could never do. They willl be greatly missed’. o The building, at 86-88 Bohemia Road, consisting of a double-fronted shop and living accommodation above was auctioned, as lot 98, by Clive Emson at Brighton in September. The price realised was £88,000 and the purchaser was Hogtrough Lane Developments of Icklesham. It is understood that the property may, subject to planning consent being obtained, be converted into flats.

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