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Oct 20 Independent store openings accelerate in 2017

Oct 17 Telford named as black spot for independent retailers

Oct 12 Independent retail stores witness “explosive” year-on-year growth in first half

Oct 12 Independent store openings increase, finds study

Oct 05 Scots shoppers now buying more own label products than big names

Sep 29 Fears for the local British pub as punters priced out

Sep 29 Chain restaurants opening at faster rate in Scotland as Indian and Chinese eateries are replaced by cafe culture

Sep 29 The Riverside scheme set to revive Rochdale’s fortunes

Sep 29 Eating out openings reach ‘new peak’ but boom will be short-lived

Sep 29 Pubs and curry houses are out; coffee shops and vegan restaurants are on the up

Sep 28 Restaurant openings reach ‘new peak’ but boom will be short-lived

Sep 28 Pubs and Indian restaurants are closing down because of cultural shift towards cafes and coffee shops

Sep 25 The North East at the shops: 20 photographs of stores down the years

Sep 25 It’s time to stop judging the north of England by the state of its high streets

Sep 25 Why Ely has one of the most successful high streets in the UK

Sep 22 North West suffering from most persistent retail voids

Sep 21 Ghost town has third of shops empty

Sep 18 Crisis in Toyland: how the shift online places our childhood favourites in peril

Sep 18 This Stoke-on-Trent town is the worst in the WHOLE country for empty shops with one in three boarded up

Sep 18 Store openings dive bomb 84% as Brexit jitters kick in

Sep 15 Walsall has one of the WORST empty shop rates in Britain

Sep 14 Shops show signs of Brexit stress with fewer openings

Sep 14 Up to one in four town centre shops are shut across the Black Country, report reveals

Sep 14 Business rates have retailers staring down the barrel

Sep 14 Do these big shopping brands have Lincoln on their radar?

Sep 04 Why BHS lying empty in the Quedam Shopping Centre is a national problem and not just Yeovil’s issue

Sep 04 Abandoned BHS Darlington store in ‘worst shape’, says retail expert

Aug 31 What’s stopping us creating food and drink emporiums for the masses in the redundant BHS stores?

Aug 30 What’s happening to BHS in the Grafton Centre?

Aug 29 60% of BHS stores still vacant as demand for big stores falters

Aug 29 More than 80% of BHS stores vacant one year on

Aug 29 Four in five BHS stores still vacant after collapse

Aug 29 A year after closure, most stores still lie empty

Aug 29 This town centre is thriving while bigger neighbours struggle. What’s the secret of Bury’s success?

Aug 25 Why London’s pubs are disappearing

Aug 21 Are garden centres taking business from department stores?

Aug 03 Why chicken shops might soon be all that’s left of the great British high street

Jul 31 Shop vacancies on the up for the first time in 2 years

Jul 31 Fashion store occupancy dips

Jul 27 Shop vacancy rate rises for first time in two years

Jul 21 Supermarket chains forced to hone their juggling skills

Jul 11 Florists wilt in face of stiff competition

Jul 06 How an ‘Airbnb for retail’ is bringing entrepreneurs back to the high street

Jul 05 M&S stores under threat in Southampton and Fareham, says business analyst

Jun 22 We need to foot-fall in love with city centre

Jun 22 Find out which towns have the most supermarkets-per-people in Staffordshire and the Black Country

Jun 22 Empty shops and major retailers leaving – what can be done to save Scunthorpe town centre?

Jun 19 New data shows number of empty shops in Scunthorpe has fallen

Jun 16 Supermarket Space Race Comes To An End With A Decline In Store Numbers

Jun 15 A town in Kent has seen one of the country’s biggest increases in convenience stores