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Developer Wass Homes will now be able to convert the upper floors of a late Victorian shop at 19E Regent Street and the building next door into a dozen flats ADVER readers have expressed mixed views after the approval of a planning application in the town centre. Developer Wass Homes will now be able to convert the upper floors of a late Victorian shop at 19E Regent Street and the building next door into a dozen flats. The building features fake pillars, ornate fanlights and the legend WW Hunter spelled out in cream bricks against a red brick background.
Lockdown restrictions to non-essential retailers have hit hard the sector with some of the UK s biggest high street names having to shut. Retail empire Arcadia, owner of Topshop and Dorothy Perkins, Debenhams, Laura Ashley and Edinburgh Woollen Mill entered administration over the past few months. Online retailers have bought brands with plans to move them online resulting in job losses and suggesting the pandemic has had an irreversible impact on UK retail. Asos bought Topshop and Miss Selfridge while Boohoo bought Debenhams with both online retailers revealing plans to move business online. PM Boris Johnson is expected to reveal his road map out of lockdown today.
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A shopper who visited Aldi for their weekly shop has criticised the chain for its Covid measures. Pictures from the Drove Road store last week showed customers seemingly ignoring social distancing rules and the anonymous shopper claimed staff did little to enforce the measures. She said: “”I felt really uncomfortable and unsafe being in the store. Nobody was keeping two metres apart in any of the aisles and some were even stood next to each other having a chat.” Aldi responded to the complaint by listing the measures it has in place at its stores including a traffic light system at the entrance, social distancing markers and encouraging contactless payments. But the budget supermarket did not address the picture or claims directly. Here’s what you said about your shopping experiences on Facebook:
The Swindon’s hospital raised around £2.2 million through charging staff, patients, and visitors to park last year. Of that, £1.4m was paid by patients and visitors, while £768,640 came in through charges, NHS Digital data revealed. Figures reveal that patients and visitors paid an average hourly rate of £1.10 at the most expensive of the trust’s three sites, while staff spent 13p per hour at the priciest spot. Here’s what you told us on Facebook… John Mccarthy: Staff parking should be free. Who else pays to park at work? All this clap for the NHS and they are being stung to pay to park at work.