This report is from this week's CNBC's UK Exchange newsletter by Ian King. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. England, Napoleon Bonaparte reputedly once said, is a nation of shopkeepers ...

Ian King takes a look at the shocking decline of Britain’s high streets and why, to the locals, they have an increasingly alien feel.

This report is from this week's CNBC's UK Exchange newsletter by Ian King. Like what you see? You can subscribe here. These days, he might observe that it is more a nation of administrators ...

Poundland, recently offloaded for just £1 by its Polish-listed former parent Pepco to the U.S. investment group Gordon Brothers, is widely expected to close dozens more stores on top of those ...