Closed department store in Southsea, Hampshire.
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Options include residential conversions, new independent shops, and demolition.
Total liquidation.
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Thankfully, a growing number of private equity firms are trying to invest more responsibly.
Bands don’t play no more …
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As online retailers like Boohoo and ASOS mop up some of the biggest high street brands, shops are increasingly under threat.
Customers queue to enter Primark on May 11 last year, after lockdown was eased.
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The Irish retailer is one of the few high street fashion retailers without an online store.
Oxford Street, London, empty in May 2020.
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Retail closures are concentrated in city centres.
Once a maker of trends and now a follower of them, Topshop became less competitive as online shopping became more popular.
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Once nimble and reactive to changing trends, Topshop failed to join the internet shopping revolution and it’s paying the price.
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Active travel has become attractive to a degree not seen for decades. Policy needs to follow.
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City by city, the data on CBD visitors vary with the severity of COVID-19 outbreaks and restrictions. But none of the CBDs has recovered former activity levels, and some might never fully recover.
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School streets close roads to motor traffic when children arrive at and leave school.
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A space the size of 284 Bluewaters is surplus to requirements.
The bank that likes to say, we’re closing branches.
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As TSB closes a third of its branches, we look at the future for high-street banks.
Coffee shops are struggling to survive COVID.
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People are still drinking coffee but where they drink it and how they make it is changing.
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Lowering urban density to protect against the coronavirus would be a misguided response. Density is not a key driver of infection, and keeps people active and healthy.
The neighbourhood a child grows up in may influence their health for years to come by changing the activity of their genes.
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This decades-long study found that living in poorer communities changes how genes are regulated.
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Coronavirus has shifted the mood in society, and the fashion industry should strike while the iron is hot.
Stand well back.
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The coronavirus pandemic is shaking a system that was pretty wobbly already.
Close to the Bó.
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New digital bank Bó is the first attempt by a high street bank to beat the likes of Monzo and Revolut at their own game.
John Lewis and Waitrose have launched their first joint Christmas advert, telling the story of a little girl and her dragon friend Edgar.
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As the British retail landscape shifts and sales fall, how much longer will Christmas ads be a fixture of the season?
Philip Green at his flagship Topshop store in New York.
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The success – and failure – of brands like Topshop and Burton has been in lockstep with the high street.
Jamie Oliver: TV cookery superstar has struggled on the high street.
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Chain restaurants are as authentic to the British food world as the inns and taverns of the 18th century.