THE HEDON BLOG is always keen to shout out for local businesses in the town. We obviously feature the local pubs and churches quite a lot because these are centres of our local community where people choose to gather.
However, the Hedon Blog think it’s important not to forget that the local shops are also essentially crucial community meeting places. We were reminded about this back in March 2012 when Rennardson News on New Road, Hedon asked to be included in our Business Directory.
“We are an up and coming local store that aims to keep growing and improving in the local community and be part of Hedon. We sell a range of products from Yorkshire Milk and sandwiches to slush to ice-creams to newspapers all for affordable prices. We are part of Shop Locally and have got some fantastic prices on well-known brands, come and browse and have a chat with us – a local business.”
So this is a shout-out for Rennardson’s and all our other local traders out there! Please do support our retail community centres! Browse, chat – and buy! 
Under the Chancellor’s proposals, any food that is sold “above ambient air temperature” will become subject to VAT, whilst products that are served “at or below ambient air temperature” will not be.
WOULD BE local shopkeeper, Sandra Buckley, is investigating the possibility of opening an olde traditional sweet shop in Hedon Market Place.
Footsteps in the Market Place, which only opened its doors last June 2011, has closed and has been stripped bare inside. Taste, the 
just under a year. The former Terrie premises on Baxter Gate is also still empty.
