The Spar Westend Service Station has just finished its 6th makeover in 25 years.
Best known to many villagers as the local paper and milk stop, the Spar is actually an Aladdin’s cave of goods. It plays an important role in the village for those who can’t, or don’t want to, commute to supermarkets to get their essential groceries.
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But over and above milk, papers and bread, the shop, run by father and son team Imtiaz and Karim Ali, also provides an off-licence, fuel, dry cleaning, lottery tickets, DVD rental, newspaper delivery (to Wester Pencaitland) and will even take grocery orders over the phone for home delivery or pickup.
As Karim explains, “Originally we were just going to bring in the new refrigerated units but we’ve now done a lot more to the place”.
The Spar is open 7am to 9pm Monday to Saturday and 7am to 8pm Sundays. Click here for more pictures of the upgraded interior.
Pencaitland Community Council
I’m more the sudoku fanatic…
Cheers
Ralph
Ah the Times, Ralph, a very erudite quotidian news sheet.
Do people normally drop the Evening from the name? 😉
Friends and I used to do the Sun 5 min crossword at lunchtime, and we often finished it in time.
I tend to buy the Times… mainly for the puzzles 🙂
Looking good.
And a great little story for local website – you wouldn’t see that in the Daily Record! Which, of course, is available from the Ali family store.