2 h. ago Watch the moment a charity tin is brazenly swiped from Stirling chippy counter

The shocking incident took place last week at the Cowane Street shop - with the tin containing donated cash for a Stirling domestic abuse charity.

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5 h. ago 'Really sad news' say shoppers as Costa Coffee closes another high street shop

The coffee shop first opened in Lyme Regis in 2012 after it took over the site from estate agents Fortnam, Smith and Bennett - and now, shoppers have reacted to the news

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5 d. ago Moment stunned 'thief' is chased down and tackled to the ground after 'stealing designer shirts worth £1,000s' from Oxford Street shop

The man reportedly fled after stealing a set of expensive white shirts from the popular men's clothing shop Hackett on Regent Street but was stopped by a speedy by-passer.

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6 d. ago JD Sports to close 50 high street stores next year as it announces huge business shake

The popular brand is set for a massive restructure next financial year. Around 150 new stores will open, while roughly 100 will be converted or relocated.

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6 d. ago One of Britain's biggest high street shop chains announces it must close 50 stores next year

The popular brand is set for a massive restructure next financial year. Around 150 new stores will open, while roughly 100 will be converted or relocated.

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8 d. ago Major charity shop chain shuts three high street stores as 47 at risk of closure

Scope - which is one of the largest disability charities in England and Wales - warned back in January that it could close a number of its 138 high street stores due to rising costs and declining footfalls

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1 week ago UK's biggest toy shop chain to shut high street store for good in just a few weeks

The UK's biggest toy store franchise is set to close the doors of one of its beloved high street shops forever – the cherished high street store has been described as an 'asset' to the local community

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1 week ago Shoe chain closing store after 60 years in 'another loss for high street'

A.G. Meek will close its branch in Eastgate Street, Gloucester, on April 12, in another blow for the UK high street as shoppers react to the sad news

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2 w. ago Primark tragedy as woman dies inside and high street shop taped off by police

Police and paramedics were called to the scene on Market Place, in Oldham, to reports for the concern for a welfare of a woman who died inside a Primark store on a popular high street

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2 w. ago Store closures: major retail shops closing in April 2025 as high street struggles

High street retailers are facing tough times, with big names closing stores this month 🛍️

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3 w. ago Boost to Ayr High Street retail as knitwear giant eyes up return

The shop, based at 208-210 High Street, closed in November 2020 when parent company, the EWM Group, entered administration.

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3 w. ago Major UK high street charity shop to close 74 stores as bosses admit huge losses

Charity Scopes has been a fixture across the UK's high streets since it first opened a store in Sevenoaks, Kent, in 1970, but bosses have now confirmed many stores will close

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3 w. ago Former West Lothian sales rep turns dream of owning Wee Boutique into reality

Karen McWilliam, who lives in Armadale, has officially opened The Wee Boutique in Bathgate’s King Street moving into the old Anne and Bobbies wedding shop.

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3 w. ago Preston’s attempts to bore Aston Villa to distraction crumble like pastry | Jonathan Liew

Championship perennials are beige down to their signature snack but their existence is still something to savourThe man behind the counter at Greggs on Fishergate has never heard of a butter pie, but try Poundbakery over the street. Poundbakery doesn’t do butter pie, but try Greenhalgh’s on the corner. Greenhalgh’s: closed on Sundays. The chip shop on Market Street does meat pie, meat and potato, steak, steak and kidney, chicken and mushroom, cheese and onion. Butter pie? A shake of the head.You’ve got to try the butter pie. That’s what everyone says the first time you visit Preston. It was created in industrial times, for the largely Catholic working population to eat on Fridays when meat was forbidden. Often you hear it described as a “delicacy”, but even this is to overstate its intensely yeoman nature. It’s layers of potatoes, onions and butter in a pie. It’s cheap. It’s hearty. It’s unpretentious. It exists to be consumed and then immediately forgotten. It is – with deepes...

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3 w. ago Bespoke whisky business awarded licence in the heart of busy West Lothian town

West Lothian Licensing Board agreed to award a premises licence to The Wee Whisky Shop in Linlithgow High Street run by Andrew Ure.

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3 w. ago Shoppers 'gutted' over 'insane' name change of high street shop after 230 years

After first opening its doors in 1792 having been founded by Henry Walton Smith and his wife, Anna, WHSmith stores will see its name changed following a buyout by the owners of Hobbycraft

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3 w. ago Much loved London shop to close leaving famous Oxford Street 'without identity'

Much loved London shop to close leaving famous Oxford Street 'without identity'  Metro.co.uk

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