The government has announced it is to accept all the 28 recommendations made in Mary Portas’ high street review, as well as setting up a £10m "innovation” fund to help businesses.

"Towns Teams" will be created to manage high streets and make parking more affordable and a national market day has been...

The Booksellers Association has pledged to write to the chief executives of all 390 local authorities to call on them to lower business rates for bookshops. The move comes following a call in the House of Commons for booksellers to be given a special business rate incentive to set up on the high street.

During the six-hour Commons...

Customer sentiment towards the high street helped independent bookshops in the final weeks of the year, as the well-publicised Mary Portas report and the Bookseller Association's IndieBound scheme highlighted the impact of consumers' buying decisions on their local communities.

Booksellers spoken to as part of The Bookseller...

Free local parking, better support from the government on business rates, and mentoring for smaller shops from the larger retailers are among the recommendations from Mary Portas in her report on the future of the high street, published today (13th December).

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