7 h. ago New Look closing another store after already shutting 32 shops this year

It comes after The Times reported earlier this year that New Look was looking to 'accelerate future store closures' when leases expire

Politics

26 h. 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

46 h. 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

48 h. 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 d. ago Ayrshire River Island store one of five to close in Scotland

River Island's Kilmarnock store is one of five in Scotland which are set to close,

Politics

5 d. 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

5 d. ago Poundland shutting two stores in weeks ahead of 68 other shop closures

Discount chain Poundland has been sold for just £1 to investment firm Gordon Brothers, the former owner of Laura Ashley, and has revealed plans to close stores

Politics

5 d. 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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5 d. 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

7 d. 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

7 d. 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

9 d. ago Tameside shop shut down after raids found 26,860 illegal cigarettes

Trading Standards took action against the shop after repeated issues

Events

9 d. ago The Original Factory Shop: TOFS shop closures as UK discount chain shuts stores with sales

Shoppers are snapping up big bargains as the retailer clears stock

Economics

1 week 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

1 week 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

1 week 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.

Events

1 week ago Popular bakery chain closes third store as shoppers 'sad to see them go'

It comes after the bakery shut its Westbourne and Wimborne branches earlier this year, with customers taking to social media to react to the latest closure

Politics

2 w. ago Iceland shutting two more stores as shoppers say 'this is so sad'

The frozen food supermarket is shutting its branch in Margate, Kent, on June 21, meanwhile, its store in Inverness, Scotland, will pull down its shutters forever on July 12

Politics

2 w. ago Jail bosses investigate video showing 'prison governor walking out of city centre brothel'

EXCLUSIVE: Footage shows a man dressed in a grey suit and a white shirt walking out of a door between two shuttered shopfronts in Sheffield.

Events

2 w. ago Poundland sold for £1 and set to shut shops in restructuring

Laura Ashley owner Gordon Brothers has struck a deal to buy Poundland from European retail group Pepco.

Economics