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A woman walks past Topshop, owned by the stricken Arcadia group
THE government is facing calls to launch a “radical” recovery programme to rescue Britain’s ailing high streets as the Arcadia Group faces collapse.
The retail giant, which includes Topshop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins, is set to go into administration today, putting 13,000 jobs at risk.
Unite said today that the news is “another bitter blow” for the country’s retail sector which was already facing a rapid decline prior to the pandemic due to online competitors.
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
MARY CONWAY becomes impatient with the intellectual self-indulgence of Tom Stoppard in a production that is, nevertheless, total class
DENNIS BROE gives an update on the last week of anti-austerity protests against the Macron regime, which has seen the supposedly more right-leaning Gilets Jaunes join with the unions and the left
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits