It’s 20 years since Jo and Richard Hill bought anything in Rotherham town centre. Why have they and so many locals abandoned it for the nearest retail park – and what would it take to change their minds?On 22 May 1987, retail...
Read MoreThe closure of former WH Smith stores around the UK is sobering on many levels. The publications they sold were there to be perused, to broaden horizonsTowards the end of the 1970s, the brief but spectacular career of those punk...
Read MoreWhether it was youngsters proving their skills or state sabotage, Europe’s most hacked country was left with a mountain of waste after food began cooking in freezersShortly before midnight last Sunday, the digital thermostats...
Read MoreRetailers call on John Healey to reduce national insurance contributions threshold in his first budgetSome of the UK’s biggest retailers and hospitality businesses, including Tesco, Costa Coffee and the Co-op, have met John...
Read MoreWelcome to Halloweenmas, weeks of themed fun and gifts – from costume parties to decorating trees – without the stress, rules or cost of ChristmasThe tree is up, the wreath is hanging on the front door and you’ve just opened...
Read MoreThe prime minister says the prison early release scheme crisis shows he’s someone who had ‘never taken no for an answer’In his pooled TV interview, Andy Burnham repeated the point he made in his Facebook post earlier (see...
Read MoreThe prime minister says he wants to build crossparty consensus In his pooled TV interview, Andy Burnham repeated the point he made in his Facebook post earlier (see 9.58am), saying he was confident that more could be done to...
Read MoreThe prime minister says other work to reduce prisoner numbers could allow for more space for serious offendersAndy Burnham did not want to be talking about prisons today. As Aletha Adu and Alexandra Topping report, the PM wants...
Read MoreBurnham has asked the justice secretary Alex Norris to come to parliament in September with solution Good morning. Andy Burnham has been prime minister for three weeks and one day, and arguably he is performing his first U-turn....
Read MoreFirst of PM’s ‘everyday fixes’ to be banning fake discounts and making it easier to cancel unwanted subscriptionsAndy Burnham: I’ll end the rip-offs that people hateAndy Burnham has promised a series of measures to tackle the...
Read MorePM expected to announce policies to tackle cost of living and indicate intent to help improve country’s high streetsAndy Burnham is to undertake a national tour this coming week the aims to improve the government’s connection...
Read MoreAs boss Stuart Machin unveils a new-look Pantheon the retailer has fashion and overseas challenges aheadOn a hot summer’s evening on London’s busy Oxford Street, a crowd of fashion influencers, models, journalists and the odd...
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