Twelve English High Streets – from Cornwall to Northumberland – will share a £1.2m pot of government cash to rejuvenate shopping areas.

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Twelve English High Streets – from Cornwall to Northumberland – will share a £1.2m pot of government cash to rejuvenate shopping areas.

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High Streets to share £1.2m pot

A man learns to walk again after an escalator ripped off his big toe in a Nottingham shopping centre.

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‘Escalator tore off my big toe’

The recession has not stopped luxury shopping and ostentatiousness from thriving, and few experiences in New York exemplified this more than the Luxury Review trade show.

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Big City: Still Flaunting the Luxe Life

Police closed part of a major shopping street in central London Friday as they investigated reports of a man causing a disturbance and throwing objects from a window.

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One of my favorite things about living as a foreign correspondent in New Delhi was shopping with my Indian co-workers. We would walk through the “bangles markets,” where male “bangle wallahs,” or merchants, sat on their haunches barefoot in kiosks filled with towering sets of hot pink, bright blue, sun yellow and garden green bangles. Read full article > >

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Greg Smith, who resigned last week via an Op-Ed in The New York Times, was said to be shopping a proposal for a book that would be a coming-of-age story and a history of Goldman Sachs.

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Greg Smith, Ex-Goldman Executive, Is Said to Be Seeking Book Deal

Your shopping habits reveal even the most personal information — like when you’re going to have a baby.

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How Companies Learn Your Secrets

People in wheelchairs chain themselves together in protest over welfare proposals, blocking traffic in one of London’s busiest shopping areas.

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Disability protest over welfare

The man suspected of slashing young women’s buttocks as they shopped at Fairfax County shopping malls last year has been arrested in Peru, police said Saturday. Authorities said they did not have any details of the arrest but confirmed that Johnny D. Guillen Pimentel, 40, was in custody in Peru and that police were “just starting the process of working with federal and international authorities to return him back to Fairfax County,” said Officer Shelley Broderick, a Fairfax County police spokeswoman, in a statement. Read full article > >

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Suspected mall slasher arrested in Peru

Shopping centres across Scotland report a last-minute rush as the public complete their Christmas purchases.

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Shops report late Christmas rush

Friday is set to be the busiest shopping day on record as consumers rush to buy last minute presents and food, credit card firm Visa predicts.

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New shopping ‘record’ predicted

Your free time this upcoming weekend may be consumed by the holidays, but it is still a weekend after all. Hurry up and finish your shopping, light your menorah or tree, wrap your presents and head out to the best events this weekend, a list of which we have compiled for you . Check out a few highlights here. Read full article > >

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Plan your holiday weekend: Wu-Tang Clan, James Brown Death-mas

UK shoppers will spend just over £1.5m a minute in total on what is expected to be the busiest High Street shopping day of the year, research suggests.

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High Street set for ‘busiest day’

UK shoppers are embracing technology at a faster pace than those in many other countries, according to a survey of global shopping habits by audit firm KPMG.

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UK shoppers ‘embrace technology’