Loss of shops is threatening rural communities | Letter

If services like fuel, banking and groceries are cut off, the economic base of an area inevitably declines, says Chas BallWithout shops, fuel supplies and post offices with banking facilities, will remote communities face further depopulation? The closure of the shop in Kilchoan follows a number of other closures of similar local assets in Lochaber and Argyll (‘Morrisons killed us’: Britain’s most westerly mainland village shop closes after half a century, 30 October). But is i