Yes, its customers could buy cheaper beans or bras elsewhere. But there’s a trust tied up in its ownership structure which is now under threat, says Gemma Goldfingle, editor of Retail Gazette
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Location, Location, Location came from Sheffield on Wednesday night.
One young couple with a £450,000 budget missed out on their dream home in Sheffield because they spent too much time fussing over whether to buy the house.
But the show’s John Lewis sponsorship did not go down too well with some Sheffield viewers.
The planned closure of Sheffield s John Lewis store has been described as a hammer blow to the city.
David Cheatham wrote: That s ironic innit? Sponsored by John Lewis when it s in Sheffield. #locationlocationlocation #C4Locations”
Jill Wheater said: “#locationlocationlocation The irony of being in Sheffield and sponsored by @JohnLewisRetail”
Today’s schools are deprived of ‘hope, vision and investment’. Photograph: redsnapper/Alamy
Sonia Sodha’s article should be cut out and pinned up in every politician’s kitchen, where the day begins and ends (“The kids aren’t all right – and the government has stopped caring”, Comment). She establishes clearly how the 21st century began with hope, vision and investment, all three of which are now consigned to the dustbin by Boris Johnson’s so-called government.
During the 1970s, I was a deputy head in a comprehensive school in north Hackney, London, and remember how, under the Inner London Education Authority, we were resourced to have a school nurse on site, two independent learning centres for children in difficulties, a reading centre for pupils who needed extra personal tuition, a scheme of health and sex education tuition for all 14-year-olds, placements for students on work experience, and we built a car