Reeves plots

Reeves plots £1.7bn tax on businesses

Rachel Reeves is plotting a £1.7 billion tax raid in the autumn which retailers have warned will accelerate the decline of high streets.


Is this Britain's most depressing ghost town?

Nowhere sums up the decline of the British high street quite as graphically as Burslem.

Once a thriving, mega-rich market town, it is now so dominated by boarded-up buildings that there seem to be more empty storefronts than occupied ones.