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It comes as new figures show 183 retailers went into administration last year – a 10% rise on 2010 – and many more, including Hawkin's Bazaar, Past Times and Barratts Shoes, remain on the critical list.

Retail industry hit hard by bleak trading over Christmas 2012

I feel disproportionately upset to hear that the likes of Barratts, Hawkin's Bazaar, and La Senza are in trouble, with job losses and branch closures imminent.

Downton Abbey's just the opiate of the middle classes | Barbara Ellen 2012

Nevertheless, there are plenty of highlights to make the anthology worth owning: King Oliver, Sidney Bechet, Billie Holiday and Bud Powell are included, along with Art Tatum's famous "Tiger Rag" rendition and Coleman Hawkin's "Body and Soul."

Anthology by Committee Stuart Isacoff 2011

You can download Matt Hawkin's robot paper toy here.

Archive 2009-09-01 2009

Hawkin's Bazaar is a hoot, despite the filthy clockwork toys they always have trundling gloomily around the floor – like the creepy "bad" toys in Toy Story 3.

Downton Abbey's just the opiate of the middle classes | Barbara Ellen 2012

D2 jeans folded last week, as did toy and gift chain Hawkin's Bazaar, citing "exceptionally challenging trading conditions".

High street sales 'unlikely to kickstart recovery' 2012

Zombie Freud is a customized version of Matt Hawkin's paper dude by Brian Gubicza.

Zombie Freud Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

He joins me now with a deeper look on Hawkin's life and the circumstances that led up to this.

CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2007 2007

CALLEBS: Police spent much of the night searching Kovac's home and the home of Hawkin's mother, where boxes and rifles were removed.

CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2007 2007

Hawkin's tailor had travelled up from London to confirm that the stained shirt hidden in the darkroom was one of a batch the accused had had made to measure less than a year before.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999