The british high street

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  19 November 2012     19:05202267
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  a couple of points here.
  
  a) i don't know the actual percentage of retail units empty in dover but it seems lower than the national average.
  
  b) why are the cobbled together people upping business rates next year bearing in mind the economic climate?
  
  
  http://www.brc.org.uk/brc_news_detail.asp?id=2330
• Guest 698

  • Registered: 28 May 2010
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  20 November 2012     08:43202314
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  a. I'm not an expert, but Aldershot, Camberley and Farnborough all seem to have loads more empty shops than Dover, while Farnham has hardly any- as soon as one becomes vacant they are all queuing up for it.
  
  b. the UBR regime is formula-driven and businesses are seen as a soft touch. Businesses get no services whatsoever in return for paying this insidious tax.
  I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
• Guest 710

  • Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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  20 November 2012     09:05202315
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  As I have said before, it should be more taxing to have a shop empty than when it's doing business.
  Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  20 November 2012     09:10202318
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  in other words they don't have a vote so stitch them up.
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  25 April 2016     16:29313213
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  Another hammer blow for the nation's High Streets with 11,000 jobs to be lost but a lot of pockets lined before the crash.
  
  
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36132440
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  28 April 2016     09:15313277
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  Surely the knighthood should be taken away at the very least.
  
  
  
  
  Http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3562473/Lady-Green-party-loving-superyacht-queen-pocketed-400m-BHS-cash-11-000-staff-fear-future-Philip-Green-s-wife-lives-gin-palace-tax-haven-No-wonder-s-smiling.html
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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  28 April 2016     09:30313278
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  Wouldn't he have to have done something wrong to do that?
  It might be immoral but all legal.
  Arte et Marte
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  1 May 2016     08:29313331
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  Good to see that he is coming under scrutiny.
  
  http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sir-philip-green-summoned-to-parliament-to-answer-questions-about-bhs-and-pensions-a7008156.html
• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
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  1 May 2016     10:06313336
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  This brought back a few memories.
  
  
  http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36148788