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By Greig Watson
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image captionThe Broadmarsh has lain derelict for months and will take a year to demolish completely
Have shopping centres had their day? With retail habits changing and the designs of the 1960s thoroughly dated, some centres are struggling to survive - but Nottingham has been offered a radical time-travelling solution to its own urban problem. Always unwelcoming, now it s apocalyptic .
It s not a tagline any city would want, but architect Peter Rogan s description neatly sums up the half-demolished hulk of Nottingham s Broadmarsh Centre.
The 1970s concrete and brick monolith has reached this sorry state by lurching from one failed renovation plan to another over the course of 20 years.
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Along a crooked finger-shaped peninsula between a lough created by the ice age and the Irish Sea, locals are hoping for a post-pandemic tourism boost from a dark new TV drama about a Troubles-era killer emerging again in the present day.
Hoteliers, distillers, B&B owners and others living on the Ards Peninsula believe the BBC-produced
Bloodlands will do for their bucolic corner of Northern Ireland what the global fantasy series
Game of Throneshas done for other parts of the region.
Over the past decade, some of the most lavish scenes from
G
oT were shot in the north of Ireland and tourists from 145 countries have visited key film locations, such as the Giantâs Causeway, in that time.