AN ADORED fancy dress shop in Portsmouth city centre will be reducing everything on the shelves to £1 tomorrow – ahead of its imminent closure.

U-Need-Us in Portsmouth, run by the Searle family, has been selling fancy dress costumes and joke items for 96 years. Manager Debbie Haggan said online competition had speeded its decline.

The news follows fancy dress shop U-Need-Us in Arundel Street, Portsmouth announcing its closure after 96 years earlier this month. Neil added: ‘This is happening in every town centre.

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U-Need-Us in Portsmouth, run by the Searle family, has been selling fancy dress costumes and joke items for 96 years. Manager Debbie Haggan said online competition had speeded its decline.