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The main road, where horse-riding locals stop to chat, is to be turned into a busy high street, with shops and business facilities.

Mr Yau explains how he tried a couple of high street banks in London, but "I had no track record and the concept was alien to them" .

The second-hand shops should not be confused with the kind of high street thrift shops found in London or New York.

He said there were still some challenges that needed to be overcome before the new fabric could start appearing on the high street.

Generally, I find the high street chains' designers more straightforward in their sense of what's about to be hot than myself.

Statisticians are puzzling over the role in this crisis of internet shopping and how much it is eroding high-street business.

And doing so is often easier and quicker from behind a computer screen than in a busy high street or shopping mall.

The bank announced that it was to merge with another of the high street banks.

Seeking growth outside its mature, oligopolistic home market, it bought Commerce Bank, which had shaken up high-street banking in New York.

For most on the high street, it has been a grim few months, and Leeds is no exception.

Once off that long High Street, he found himself in some very poor parts of the town.

He must be in love! The snowman braces himself for the high street as part of his long journey.

Some high street pharmacies already offer a similar service for a fee but the BPAS service is understood to be the first not to charge.

Surely there are more important or useful things to do than walk up and down the High Street in pursuit of the latest items.

With the fear of job cuts still hanging over the economy, consumers are curbing their spending on the British high street, a survey showed.

Shoppers continued to shun the high street in March, according to the "FootFall" index compiled by Experian, a consumer-research firm.

Boots and Specsavers, two high-street stores, apply something like the franchise model to the distribution of spectacles.

As he was driving up the High Street he encountered Mr. Slop at a crossing .

The British tabloid Mirror was also enthusiastic about Obama's populist high street style, dubbing her the "First Lady of fashion. "

Recently there was a shooting incident on the high street of New Haven which is extremely close to Yale's central campus.

Britain's major high street banks refused to comment on whether their customers had been affected by the scam when contacted by The Times.

For its first eight years in India, M& S, the mainstay of the British high street, paid little heed to this.

Now, every Sunday hundreds of cars and coaches pass through the High Street at what I think is a very dangerous speed.

Among the worst culprits, he says, are high street retailers, who commission versions of copyrighted designs from Asian producers.

The money cannot be recouped. Mrs Brown is said to usually wear clothes from high-street retailers such as Marks & Spencer and New Look.

Bad news for the high street has become good news for the bank balances of UK shoppers this Christmas!

On the contrary, it was a large-scale, commercial, sponsored event involving corporations that included a major Indian high street bank.

Small firms find it hard to get loans or do not trust the high-street banks to stick with them if their businesses run into trouble.

Chief among them is the poor record of foreign banks, including some of TD's Canadian peers, on America's high street.

"Clicks-and-mortar" stores, which could reach consumers both on the internet and on the high street, were thought to be inherently superior.

Overcrowding and long queues in shops are forcing people away from the high street as the hassle of Christmas shopping becomes too much.

The recession, having hit high street banks (and savers' accounts), has also had an impact on the new edition of the dictionary.

The downturn has rapidly spread across the economy, from the stricken financial industry to the high street and manufacturers.

Upmarket fashion trends drive retail sales when " adapted " for the high street ( " ripped off" is so perjorative, I always think ) .

Something huge and horned erupted from the wand: Head down, it charged toward the High Street and out of sight.

Other than the supermarkets, "who market music like asparagus" , says Bianchi, HMV is the only music retailer on the high street.

Without the expensive overheads of a physical store, virtual stores can undercut the High Street substantially.

But it is surely only a matter of time before the British high street catches on.

They bring fresh ideas and a passion, rather than the predictable and over-priced meals too common among many high street chains.

The fury over the ill-fated pasty tax should have warned David Cameron to stay well clear of Britain's high street eateries.

In the desert there are signs of life: Saltillo's high street, where four out of ten shops closed during the recession, is busy again.

British consumers spent less than expected on the high street last month, triggering fresh fears about the nation's economic recovery.

Sants says he knew there would be big implications for the high street banks.

The fish had been on display in the reception area of Quantum Chartered Accountants in Christchurch's High Street.

The tools can be bought on a local high street and the command-and-control bunker can be a spare bedroom.

Frankly, to any child in the late 1950s, a Martian rocket landing in the High Street would have seemed more likely.

However, the company is a virtual retailer and so does not have to pay for stores, retail staff and high street rents.

Yet these days so-called money-service businesses (MSBs) are the unacceptable face of high-street finance.

Any resident of a big city will understand the feeling of being overwhelmed by the mass of humanity on a subway train or high street.

All areas of the economy from the housing market to the high street suffered, raising pressure on politicians to take urgent action.

I wish I frequented the same high street as the statisticians who calculate measures of inflation.

Lending to British companies by the dominant high street banks has been declining across the board since early 2009 (see chart).

The entrepreneur has built a retail empire that includes some of the most familiar names on the UK high street.

There is a certain down-home intimacy to the atmosphere that feels more like being in a doctor's waiting room than a high-street store.

Downing Street sources say the celebrity chef will cook using "honest high-street products" and avoid expensive or "fancy" ingredients.

The superstore killed Stalham as a weekly marketplace, Mr Towers agrees, "but as a high street, not particularly" .

It is unclear to what extent price rises will feed through on to the high street.

But for the most part, the convention centre's population wouldn't look out of place on any German high street.

A decade ago some observers predicted that internet banking would render retail banking from high-street branches obsolete.

Russian shoppers in a Moscow branch of high street chain Top Shop were the first to road test the technology.

Some iced coffees being sold on the high street contain as many calories as a hot dinner, a cancer charity warns.

In the UK, Revenue & Customs won a legal battle forcing high-street banks to divulge the details of customers in offshore jurisdictions.

The sale signals the end for one of the most notorious brands in British high-street banking.

Apps like Guanxi. me have valuable social networking databases that could prove very attractive to high street retailers.

While Chanel may have created a credible clog, and the high street leveraged its halo effect to full advantage, not everyone is convinced.

Party jump suits are taking over event dressing by stealth, and the high street is completely on top of this.

The high street whirrs with electric three-wheeled scooters, carrying stick-thin ex-miners looking a decade older than their years.

They had come to the corner where Elm angles into High Street.

Mr Erisman believes that e-commerce is helping rural parts of China to skip high street shopping and move straight online.

In February Zale, a struggling high-street jeweller, said it would cut 20% of its head-office staff and close 105 stores.

In the immediate locality there is a wide range of bars and restaurants as well as most major high street shops.

A brand loved by celebrities, its high price point rules out the shopper surges seen in high street stores.

Despite the switch to online purchasing, shoppers defied the ice-cold weather and swarmed to high street retailers.

Metro is a high-profile new retail concept imported from the US, aiming to provide better service than our incumbent high street banks.

The virtual changing room is the latest invention attempting to the high street shopping experience.

Men suffer twice as much as women, apparently, and are, therefore, in greater danger of dying on the High Street in the coming weeks.

A lot of high street stores, particularly department stores, need an extra helping hand to deal with the seasonal rush.

Did you drive to the out-of-town supermarket, or did you walk, cycle or catch a bus to the high street?

Raid your high-street health food stores for products loaded with this traditional English herb.

The second consecutive monthly fall disappointed economists, who expected broadly flat high-street sales.

The busiest day on the High Street is forecast to be December 18, when 10m shoppers could make a last-minute dash.

How do local authorities rationalize occupying high street retail property?

High street retailers reported a marked increase in sales before Christmas.

Chunky knits, embroidery and crochet are key features which are proving popular with the high street.

We do not mind if one chain of high street shops closes its doors, because there are many other places to buy our clothes and groceries.

I was proceeding along the High Street in a northerly direction when.

Freelance writer Robin Carpenter and her husband Andrew Olmsted own a three-story Victorian house on High Street.

Milk from the offspring of cloned cows is secretly -- and illegally -- going into high street shops in the UK.

I was proceeding along the High Street in a northerly direction.

Higher wages mean more people are shopping at places like IKEA and Marks & Spencer. The high street is booming.

Just go straight down the High Street, then take the first left, and Bob's your uncle.

Elizabeth paced up the High Street, in no great hurry.

Clearly so many are reaching this weight that clothes to fit them are available on the High Street alongside normal sizes.

Our fashion designers are also well known, with their creations copied and sold in the black market and displayed in high street shops.

But this could mean high street price wars as retailers compete "even more fiercely" .

Some new books in Internet shops are really cheaper than those in high street bookstores.

My everyday clothes are mainly from Jack Wills, Cherry Ann or general high street stores.

Instead both men opened bookshops on opposite sides of Coleford High Street.

We have found there is enough demand to make larger sizes available, including the largest suit available on the High Street.

You'll be cold and grumpy and desperate to buy a bad cardigan from a second-rate high street duty-free shop in no time.

Designers and consumers want to be different from the high street.

The magazine offers some advice on the latest high street fashion trends .

I like to wear a little bit of designer with a mix of good high street pieces.

It's roughly like buying a hat in the high street, and wearing it at a jaunty angle.

According to new figures, stores are facing a Christmas crisis with the weakest High Street trading for six months.

The same is true of the more defensive mergers on the Japanese high street.

As well as his life, it will commemorate the era when high street banks were run by high street bankers.

Why is it so hard for me to find a properly fitting pair of trousers on the high street?

His talk rarely drifts from local issues, such as the regeneration of Brentford's High Street and, most importantly, Heathrow airport.

A brazen thug is caught on camera torching a Miss Selfridge store and causing a High Street inferno.

The Material Girl launches her new designs for high street store H& M next month.

What about supermarkets versus the local market or high street?

Retailers' woes will spread far beyond the high street.

He setup shop as a retail tobacconist in the High Street.

The Material Girl launches her new designs for high street store H&M next month.

In the high street, deputy head of ShanYangXian devel-oped from mountain WangYingWu is its organization for the villagers.

High street stores will fail and close by the hundreds.

Soon small high street law firms may have even more to worry about.

Sadly, however, it seems they are being encouraged in this belief by high street stores indulging in what has been called 'manity sizing'.

That new shop in the high street is selling pocket calculators dirt cheap.

This year was exceptionally difficult on the high street.

This artery of central Misurata was once a buzzing high street.

Swindon's busy high street shows that people are still shopping.

This year, 19 high street banks have collapsed in the US - more than in the previous four years combined.

They believe cosmetic surgery on the High Street is a step too far.

Without the overheads of running and staffing the high street branches they can offer higher rates of interest to customers.

The distinction between what we see on the catwalk and what's on-display in the high street is becoming increasing blurred.

Behind the strong sales figures though, there are signs of unease on the high street.

Church Street is continual with High Street.

Street artist on High Street, Chester , UK .

H&M is well known for bringing high fashion to the high street.

Mrs Brown is said to usually wear clothes from high-street retailers such as Marks & Spencer and New Look.

I was proceedingalong the High Street in a northerly direction when.

Frank: There is a supermarket in Kensington High Street. I'll come and give you a hand.

top She set up shop as a bookseller in the High Street.

Police in riot gear were pushing people up Brixton High Street at around 1am.

High-street music shops are closing.

Thereafter, homebuyers go to high street banks for a mortgage, typically at about 12 per cent annual interest.

Marine: There is a supermarket in Kensington High Street.

On the High Street, M&S, Zara, Jigsaw and Gap have a wearable range of denim, suede and leather.

Don't go head to toe : it doesn't look right on a British High Street.

I lost touch with my friends and at weekends I would wander the high street.

Yet leaders need to explain that a healthy Wall Street or City is necessary for a thriving main or high street.

We believe sales will be about 50-50 through the internet and through our high-street shops.

You will find the post office just off High Street.

Why shoudn't the high street directly admit its debt to high fashion?

Thankfully, it is a long way from the survey to the high street.

The high street is a blaze of lights in the evening.

A new bookshop had opened in the high street.

high street cars is endless.

That's a tall story about the town's high street.

Places such as Ludlow in Shropshire, a fairtrade town based on ethical trading ideas, where the independent high street has been hard won.

She have open a shop in the high street.

The reason that Barclays has kept going for 300 years is that UK high street banking is basically a sound business.

We lived in a cul-de-sac, miles away from the high street.

The labels need HMV to survive in order to keep lucrative non-chart music on the high street.

This change has been called the "High Street Revolution. "

Well, your best bet is to go to Thomas Cook in the High Street.

There is a big house off the high street.

Have you purchased any fashion products in the international High Street store?

The device was found in the ground in the 100 block of West High Street around 6: 30 p. m.

Are you looking for the single- room in this high street ?

Brian Lear, 77, said the 'ghost' bears a distinct likeness to a girl standing in a doorway in a photo of Wem's high street. This

I bought an old engraving of the High Street.

Smaller high-street shops are under threat from all sides: their biggest VAT (value-added tax) bill comes at the end of January;

The closure of a high-street retailer shakes a proud export industry

In the frame: Amateur photographer Drew Buckley and his High Street camera

Obese Britain: biggest off-the-peg suit goes on sale on High Street

High street: the main street of a town or a city;

For example, William Hill, a British high-street bookmaker, runs a poker room for the Sun, a tabloid newspaper;

You'd look good pram Pushing down the high street

So I leave work get to the high street and i miss my bus

a company located in the high street of the city

City Hall, High Street, North Bridge Road

The dreary old lanes to the high-street madness

Try on lots of pairs of shoes on high street

The High Street never looked so low

Bella donna's on the high street

A big house off the high street