WHILE traditional high streets across the UK are seeing shops closing and premises boarded up, a market town in the heart of the Eden Valley is experiencing a renaissance, with all independent traders opening new businesses. Local Data Company (LDC) research for accountancy firm PwC statistics show an average of 48 shops, restaurants and other leisure and hospitality venues closed permanently every day across England, Wales and Scotland last year, and only 21 opened. However, in Appleby-in-Westmorland every town centre retail unit is now occupied, with a new I[...]
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