Death of the high street: special report

Marks & Spencer overhauls its leadership team after reporting its worst sales performance in years.

With Tesco reporting a 1.5 decline in sales, former chief executive Sir Terry Leahy tells Channel 4 News a doubling in the price of oil has hit UK consumers “more than anything else”.

Downpours in April result in the worst decline in town centre shopper numbers since November 2009, a report shows.

In another blow to the British High Street – the embattled greetings card chain Clinton is being forced into administration, putting eight thousand jobs at risk.

Downward sales prompt Mothercare to close 111 sites, including 75 Early Learning Centre stores. The move will lead to the loss of 730 jobs.

As Nokia battles to regrain ground from Apple and Samsung, Channel 4 News asks if established brands have any hope in the future consumer electronics market.

Turnaround investment firm OpCapita is set to keep open 333 shops and save 3,100 jobs, with reports that it is to buy a substantial part of the Game Group, currently in administration.

Photo retailers say the government is skewing the market against independent shops by giving the Post Office a contract to renew driving licences and threatening to do the same for passports.

The government accepts “virtually all” of Mary Portas’s recommendations about reviving Britain’s high streets but retailers say they are concerned her ambitions may not be matched by ministers.

Game Group plc, which accounts for 50 per cent of high street video games sales, warns investors it is on the point of collapse. What will it mean for gamers in the UK?

As Edinburgh Woollen Mill swoops again to save another high street fashion chain, Channel 4 News asks how many other retailers faced with bankruptcy may be rescued from the brink.

As Topshop’s boss champions British designers and manufacturers at London Fashion Week, an industry expert warns Channel 4 News there is a limit to what can be produced on UK soil.

Chain stores are closing 14 town centre shops a day as falling sales push high streets further into decline. An expert tells Channel 4 News the situation calls for ‘drastic’ change.

One-in-seven shops on the UK’s high streets stood empty last year as further closures loom in 2012. Around 48,000 premises are vacant.

With retail sales rising in the run-up to Christmas, Channel 4 News looks at the high street victims of the economic downturn.