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Riots latest: £20m high street support scheme for retailers

Prime Minister David Cameron has revealed a series of concrete measures to help riot-hit retailers, including business rates holidays. The Government will allow local authorities to give business rates relief to those retailers affected by the mayhem this week. Cameron also told Parliament that businesses badly damaged can defer their tax...

Design

Retailers furious over protest mobs

Retailers expressed their fury over lack of action by both the police and the Government after shops and businesses in London's West End were attacked and occupied in violent protests organised by splinter groups involved in trade-union-organised anti-cuts march. Mobs attacked stores including Topshop and Anne Summers before occupying Fortnum &...