55 h. ago Woman with 45 previous shoplifting convictions warned she is on 'brink of custody'

Linda Carmichael attempted to steal £400 worth of beauty products from Boots in Braehead Shopping Centre last December.

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3 d. ago Britain’s biggest toy chain launches huge ‘everything must go’ sale ahead of shutting shop in DAYS

BRITAIN'S biggest toy chain has launched a 25% closing down sale at a store closing in a matter of days. The Entertainer at The Moor Shopping Centre in Sheffield will close on Saturday, October 11, according to the shopping centre's announcement. The ‘everything must go’ sale slashes prices on tonnes of items by up to...

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3 d. ago A school field trip to see neoliberalism in action? Count me in | Zoe Williams

It wasn’t quite what I was expecting from my daughter’s A-level geography class, but I had plenty of ideasIf you happen to have children of an age to willingly study geography, you’ll know that it’s the topic with all the best field trips. They’re constantly going somewhere. That place is rarely cool to begin with, and they zone in on the least cool thing about it, so if they go to the seaside, they’re there to measure groynes rather than taste-test ice-creams; and if they go to a shopping centre, it’s to ask local residents what they think of urban regeneration, not to look round the shops. But they seem really into it, so who am I to cavil?Therefore, while only somewhat listening to a conversation about an A-level module on globalisation – which is split into categories, one of which is shipping containers, like a parody of school being boring, and another is neoliberalism – I got it into my head that my daughter had to go on a field trip to see some neoliberalism in action. Conti...

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4 d. ago Police search for missing man last seen at Greater Manchester shopping centre

He was last seen at inside the shopping centre in Leigh

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4 d. ago Posh chocolate shop with £100 slabs opens at Trafford Centre

It's expensive, but the posh chocolate has already been flying out since opening at the Trafford Centre

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5 d. ago Wild moment darts champion Michael van Gerwen is caught in a KEBAB SHOP brawl as legend is seen in the middle of scuffle with fellow punters

A video circulating on social media of the incident shows the three-time darts world champion, 36, at the centre of a five-man scuffle near the shop's counter.

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5 d. ago Marks & Spencer closes flagship city centre store after 100 years as gutted shoppers say ‘it’s just so sad’

MARKS & Spencer has closed a flagship city centre store after 100 years of trading in a crushing blow for the high street. Devastated shoppers have said "it's just so sad" after the store officially closed for good on Saturday afternoon. This comes after it was revealed that the store on Dudley Street, Wolverhampton, had...

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6 d. ago Two in hospital as car hits pedestrian then smashes into Scots town centre shop

A DRIVER lost control of a car and hit a pedestrian before crashing into a town centre shop wall. The motorist, 67, struck the man, 63, before he smashed into the Edinburgh Woollen Mill branch in Largs, Ayrshire. It is believed the pensioner may have suffered a medical emergency behind the wheel. Both were taken...

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7 d. ago Woman pees in bucket at garden centre in front of stunned shoppers

Finding a public toilet is out of order when you are bursting to go is something that will ruffle anyone's feathers but one woman took things a bit too far while out shopping

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7 d. ago Britain's best cities: The most thriving high streets with fewest closures, and those with most empty shops

Almost a fifth of shops are closed in some UK cities and town centres

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8 d. ago Three NHS admin workers who made £412k selling fake Covid 19 vaccine records during lockdown are jailed for 10 years

Hakeem Walters, 29, Rokibul Islam, 31, and Muhammed Ahmed, 27, made their fortune while employed as administrators in Westfield Shopping Centre, Stratford.

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8 d. ago Poundland to close down another Scots branch based in busy shopping centre

The store has been spotted with closing down advertisements in its window.

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8 d. ago Doomed UK shopping centre loved in 80s is being DEMOLISHED with all traders ordered to leave

A DOOMED shopping centre once loved by locals in the 80s is set to be demolished – and every trader has been ordered to pack up and leave. Park Mall shopping centre, in Ashford town centre, Kent, will be completely flattened along with its two car parks. Traders have until January 9 to move out...

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8 d. ago Explosion of barber shops in Britain's beleaguered town centres could be sign of 'criminal activity', Labour minister says

More than 750 barbers opened in the UK last year despite a broader High Street downturn - with police saying some of them are being used for money laundering.

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9 d. ago Schoolboy, 16, who hurled 15kg seat over 50ft shopping centre drop learns fate

A schoolboy, 16, who recklessly threw a 15kg seat from a 50 foot balcony at Westfield shopping centre, narrowly missing shoppers, has been jailed over the incdient

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9 d. ago Yob who threw a 5kg sofa from a balcony at busy shopping centre jailed

The teenager launched a 15kg sofa over a 50ft drop at the Westfield shopping centre in Stratford, East London, narrowly missing a shopper below - with the incident shared on social media

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9 d. ago Schoolboy yob, 16, who hurled HUGE 15kg seat over edge of 50ft drop inside busy mall is jailed

A 16-year-old boy has been jailed for eight months after throwing a 15kg sofa from a balcony at a busy shopping centre, narrowly missing shoppers. The teen, who cannot be named, threw the blue chair down a 50ft drop at the Westfield shopping centre in East London on March 1. Both he and a friend...

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9 d. ago Just Stop Oil activists 'poured orange paint over Tesla robot at Westfield showroom', court hears

Catherine Nash, 74, and Nigel Fleming, 63, climbed onto the podium display at Westfield shopping centre in Shepherd's Bush and unfurled a Just Stop Oil banner.

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9 d. ago Schoolboy prankster, 16, who hurled 15kg seat from third floor of Westfield shopping centre is locked up for eight months

The teenager, who cannot be named, hurled the 15kg blue chair 50 feet downwards towards punters at the busy mall in Stratford, east London , in March.

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9 d. ago Former SPFL star dramatically CLEARED of assaulting teenage girl in Glasgow city centre chip shop 

SCOTS footballer Shaun Rooney was cleared today of assaulting a teenage girl in a chip shop. The 29-year-old was accused of attacking Sophia Bruce, 18, at Blue Lagoon on Glasgow's Queen Street on September 19 2024. Court papers alleged the Fleetwood Town defender repeatedly pushed her and seized her on the body. It was claimed that...

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