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‘It’s become a wasteland’: Britons on how shopping centres have changed

Shopping centres across the UK have declined in recent years, as store closures and online shopping change consumer habits for good.According to a report by the property consultancy Lambert Smith Hampton, about 60 of the UK’s 500 bigger shopping centres are likely to be razed, and a further 200 could be partially demolished.Here, four people describe how their local shopping centres have changed, the impact on communities, and what the future looks like.“Things have changed immeasurably since I was a child,” said 74-year-old Gordon Jackson from Cheadle Hulme, Greater Manchester. “Merseyway shopping centre has become a wasteland of empty shops, which is so sad to see

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It’s not the economy, stupid, that could deliver a win for Kamala Harris

There are themes playing out in the US presidential election that are familiar to most people across the developed world.The lack of affordable housing. Rocketing home insurance and childcare costs. How expensive owning and running a car has become.More acutely, at least for lower income groups, an inflationary surge has sent food prices soaring by more than 20% in the last two years

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From Northern trains to Dolly Parton, the institutions that can’t quit the fax

There’s not much Dolly Parton and Northern rail bosses can claim to have in common. Frustrated commuters from Manchester to Middlesbrough might complain the train service barely works 9 to 5. What does unite the two is that neither can let go of the fax machine.Banned by the NHS in England and dropped by the Premier League after one too many player transfers crumbled amid faulty transmissions, the persistence of the screeching and buzzing fax was this week blamed for commuter misery by the mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham.With a face like thunder after half an hour hearing Northern’s executives explain their service’s dismal performance, he said: “I have heard that you’re still using fax machines … Can that possibly be true?”It was, admitted the bosses

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Apple reports robust demand for iPhone 16 even as overall sales in China slow

Apple reported strong demand for the iPhone 16 in its quarterly earnings report on Thursday, though overall sales in China slightly decreased year-over-year. The company reported $94.9bn in revenue, up 6% year-over-year, and $1.64 in earnings per share (EPS). The company’s earnings slightly beat Wall Street projections of $94

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Sierra Leone claims Breeders’ Cup glory as City of Troy flops – as it happened

And that’s a wrap for the 2024 Breeders’ Cup, a meeting that will be remembered by many for City Of Troy’s no-show in the Classic but saw five of the turf races head back across the Atlantic and Aidan O’Brien join D Wayne Lukas on 20 winners at the meeting. It is as certain as anything in racing that he will be back here at Del Mar next year looking for No.21.This is Greg Wood at Del Mar, signing off after Breeders’ Cup 41.1

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City of Troy pays price for slow start in Breeders’ Cup Classic

In racing, as in life, it is always a good idea to have a Plan B. City Of Troy’s audacious challenge for the Breeders’ Cup Classic here on Saturday was over almost before it had begun, but his owners from the Coolmore Stud syndicate were still all smiles in the winner’s enclosure a few minutes later after Chad Brown’s Sierra Leone, a colt from the American arm of the Coolmore operation, held off Fierceness by a length and a half.There was always an air of “win or bust” about the bold decision to send City Of Troy to the Classic, and so it proved.A slow break put him on the back foot from the start, and the serious action was soon unfolding many lengths in front of him, as Fierceness helped to set a furious pace to halfway. Fierceness was still there a quarter of a mile out but the strong gallop meant he had nothing left as Sierra Leone swept past at the top of the stretch