6 d. ago Major toy brand closes 29 stores across UK as workers set to be axed for one reason

The number of workers was reduced from 435 to 401. It comes after the brand shut 40 shops in the previous 12 months, blaming pressures from inflation. The toy brand also opened 22 new sites in its last financial year

Economics

2 w. ago UK's biggest coffee chains shut shops as customers ask 'where will I get flat white now'

In a new blow for Britain's battered high street, both Starbucks and Costa Coffee have shut majorly popular branches in two towns - leaving customers gasping for their 'flat whites'

Economics

2 w. ago High street giant closes UK store today after announcing 33 shops will shut

River Island, a major clothing brand, is set to close a branch down as part of a plan to save the company from insolvency in what is a tough time for the high street

Politics

2 w. ago If Britain is broken, what is to blame – big money and big tech, or graffiti on your train? | Tom Whyman

A new cadre of agit-prop campaigners has been cleaning the London underground, but there is more to the political stunt than meets the eyeBritain, let’s face it, is crap. Crap, I mean, in quite a specific sense: we might not be teetering on the brink of civilisational destruction, as the post-Brexit right can often seem to think. But there nonetheless remains a vast, ambient sense of rubbishness. Everything is expensive but nothing works. Our streets are full of potholes; our houses are full of mould. All the shops are shut, except for a Tesco Express, where there are security tags on the eggs. It takes about a million years to build a railway line.Up to now, the response to Britain’s enshittification has, by and large, seemed remarkably fatalistic: Keir Starmer spent the first year in government repeatedly insisting that there just wasn’t any money, and so really nothing could be done. Thank God then, one might think, for Looking for Growth, a new campaign group led by young (well,...

Politics

2 w. ago Plans finally revealed for town centre Wilko store left empty for years

The shop shut down after the UK chain went into administration back in 2023

Politics

2 w. ago UK's 'saddest' abandoned shopping centre shuts graffitied doors with empty streets and dead rat

Doors on the UK's saddest shopping centre - St Catherine's Place in Bedminster - remain firmly shut, albeit graffitied, with stores boarded up and rubbish lining the entranceway

Economics

2 w. ago Best waterside pubs along Britain’s rivers perfect for sunny weekends

Ahead of the sizzling weather, boat hire firm Drifters - which offers over 500 boats for hire from 40 locations across England, Scotland and Wales - has put together its list of the best river and canalside pubs in the country

Politics

3 w. ago Major retailer to shut as 20% off 'closing down' sale launched in shopping centre

The GAME store in the Victoria Centre, Nottingham, is closing down and all stock must go. The clearance signs have appeared in the windows of the video game retailer

Economics

3 w. ago Full list of Scots River Island stores at risk of closure as fashion chain plans to shut 33 shops

Hundreds of jobs are at risk at River Island as part of plans to shut 33 of its UK stores.

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3 w. ago Full list of Scots River Island stores as high street fashion chain plans to shut 33 shops

Hundreds of jobs are at risk at River Island as part of plans to shut 33 of its UK stores.

Politics

3 w. ago 'This is awful' say shoppers as Iceland closes supermarket store today

Iceland is closing its Margate, Kent, store today and will also shut up shop in Inverness, Scotland, on July 12

Economics

3 w. ago Massive high street fashion chain plans to shut 33 stores with 71 more at risk

The chain plans to close 33 of its UK stores, putting hundreds of jobs at risk as part of a major restructuring plan, according to reports.

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3 w. ago River Island to shut 33 shops with hundreds of jobs at risk – reports

A further 71 stores are also at risk depending on talks with landlords in order to secure improved rental deals, according to reports.

Events

3 w. ago Tameside shop shut down after raids found 26,860 illegal cigarettes

Trading Standards took action against the shop after repeated issues

Events

4 w. ago Poundland sale risks more than a thousand jobs as 68 stores to close

The discount chain also indicated it will shut dozens more of its UK shops in the coming years under the new ownership.

Events

4 w. ago Historic 'oldest shop' in English city is forced to shut its doors after 160 years of trading

WH Mogford & Son, tucked away in Westbury-on-Trym high street, has been a traditional hardware store since 1860s, but this September it will close its doors for the final time.

Politics

4 w. ago Poundland to shut 68 shops and two warehouses after takeover

Pepco Group last week sold the discount chain for £1 after it had been hit by a sharp downturn in trading.

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