CAN The Press or any sleuth reader give me an answer to the following?

A few years ago I travelled regularly down the A64 westbound and sometimes used a petrol station near Tadcaster.

Like so many, it closed, but then came back to life after being demolished.

I would drive by and see the gradual transformation from a piece of waste land, to neat rows of bricks that transformed into an extensive wall, a building, a roof and then the rest of the site covered in immaculate tarmac.

I was intrigued as to what the business would be and patiently waited as I sped by. I waited. And waited.

Days turned into weeks; weeks into months and months into years. Now, as I pass, I witness what was a wonderful, pristine new business, decaying into slow oblivion.

It was completed and ready to open. Did the owner, sadly, go bankrupt right at the end - but if so, surely it was in a state to sell on?

Businesses start with a dream; passion, and someone willing to take a financial risk despite the odds.

This country survives on entrepreneurs, small businesses and risk takers who often put their - and often their families’ - future on the line.

So what could possibly have gone so devastatingly wrong in this case?

Keith Massey, Bishopthorpe, York