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Previous figures from the British Retail Consortium BRC suggest about one in 10 shops are vacant in town-centre shopping districts.
High street braced for more closures after summer of riots and gloom 2011
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The high-density job nodes are all located in the town-centre areas, and this train connects four or five of those spots.
Vancouver’s CanadaLine to open in September « Stephen Rees’s blog 2009
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Nearly 1,000 refugees from Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and across Africa are sleeping rough in town-centre squats and woodland shanty camps....
New Labour migrants. FIDO The Dog 2009
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The ill-equipped British force ended up scattered and pinned down in fixed town-centre locations, living in sometimes unbearable conditions and fighting fiercely.
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NO campaign print which for example scaremongers on future town-centre charging makes the YES error look nit-picking; 7. Links: Naturally this is linked to the video of the debate.
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Okay, well, our wedding wasn't quite as small as some of the ones mentioned here: we had a civil union in the marriage chapel in the town-centre building in Markham, followed by dinner for all at a nice restaurant, and then a slightly larger party in the backyard the next day.
Bridal Scams Rogers 2007
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David Cameron went out on patrol in a pursuit car, heard about planning for a VIP visit, witnessed the endless paperwork, spent a morning visiting a rural outpost as well as seeing the daily operations of a town-centre police station.
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In spite of recent reversals in policy which favour town-centre retail sites, it is unlikely that we shall see a significant reversal in the drift to large-scale out-of-town malls and supermarkets – and town-centre sites are in any case likely to be dominated by retail chains and fast-service smaller-scale supermarkets.
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In spite of recent reversals in policy which favour town-centre retail sites, it is unlikely that we shall see a significant reversal in the drift to large-scale out-of-town malls and supermarkets – and town-centre sites are in any case likely to be dominated by retail chains and fast-service smaller-scale supermarkets.
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The town had been hit by flash flooding earlier in the week, which saw much of the town-centre under water.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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