Tesco drops plan for Sherborne store after campaign

Campaigners in the Dorset town of Sherborne are celebrating, after Tesco announced on its website that it would not be opening a new store in the town. After Tesco first revealed plans to open on the site of a former hotel, locals had run a huge 'No Thanks Tesco' campaign, and collected 11,000 signatures on their petition (not bad for a town with a population of 9,523).

So how did the locals fight the supermarket, and what answers does this town have as to how to hold off the march of the supermarkets?
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