In more gloomy news for high street retailers it’s been revealed that more than one in ten town centre shops are lying empty. The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which has been gathering data on empty shops in town centres since July 2014, announced that the latest vacancy rate of 11.3% was the highest they’ve seen. [...]

The consequences of the global financial crisis are becoming more visible as an increasing number of vacancies appear on Britain’s high streets. According to new research, in some parts of the UK one shop in every three remains closed. The report from the Local Data Company, surveying 1000 towns and cities, suggests that there is [...]