Death of the high street: special report

Administrators acting for the women’s fashion chain Jane Norman are looking for a buyer for the firm’s 90 shops which shut on Saturday.

Habitat stores outside London are put into administration threatening 900 jobs in the indebted furniture chain, while a £25m deal sees branches in the capital sold to the owner of Argos.

New figures obtained by Channel 4 News show that Britain’s supermarkets are in the middle of an unprecedented expansion drive, with a new one or an expansion opening every day, writes Siobhan Kennedy.

High petrol, cotton and wheat prices are being blamed for the turbulence on Britain’s high streets as music retailer HMV issues its third profits warning of 2011. Siobhan Kennedy looks at the numbers.