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Former Debenhams stores across the UK are being reinvented, with a dizzying array of new uses – but only a third of the sites are now occupied by retailers

Oxford Street has been through many changes during its long history — from its association with the Tyburn gallows to the transformation of Oxford Circus by John Nash — but has rarely seemed so dispiriting as it has in recent years. A street where the original department stores first flourished,…

Mexican and Malaysian, Uzbek and Italian: Ben McCormack has the flavours of the month

The Standard interviews Westfield UK COO Scott Parsons about his vision for the future of London's biggest shopping malls

After bankruptcy of Birmingham, Surrey town’s Lib Dem leader says ‘We can see the iceberg coming’

John Lewis is a doughty symbol of London retail, but that does not guarantee it a bricks-and-mortar future. Gamages on Holborn traded in everything from toys to supplying the army with catapults during the First World War, but was an anachronism in swinging London by the Seventies, while Dickins &…

“If the novelists P.G. Wodehouse, Jackie Collins and Naguib Mahfouz had been asked to pool their creative talents, they would have struggled to invent a character as bold and controversial as Mohamed Al Fayed,” said Andrew Anthony in The Observer.

The larger-than-life ex-Harrods owner, who has died aged 94, was never far from the headlines or controversy but was an indomitably bold figure

Former owner of Harrods and Fulham FC whose stormy relationship with British institutions denied him citizenship