“Number of empty shops in UK at highest level for five years”

Oct 1, 2019 | High Street

I’ve had these bin bags full of stuff in the back of my car since an end-of-holiday clear-out a couple of months ago. They’re destined for a charity shop of some kind and I really have tried to take it to one, several times. Problem is they’re all in the middle of high streets in formerly empty shops, and I can never park near enough not to have to make two or three journeys back and forth. Which perhaps says it all. Or some of it.

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“Arcadia collapse sees 10,000 pensions head to PPF”

“Arcadia collapse sees 10,000 pensions head to PPF”

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