Tag: Mary Portas

Mary Queen of shops failed to save our stalls

Mary Queen of shops failed to save our stalls

| February 11, 2013

TV SHOPPING queen Mary Portas has run into a bit of “Barney Rubble” in her new attempt to revive a famous shopping street in London’s East End.

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Markets that were meant to save the ailing High Street

Markets that were meant to save the ailing High Street

| August 26, 2012

They are being touted as the vibrant cure for Britain’s struggling High Streets. But as City investors look to capture the buzz generated by street markets, there are wider fears that they are in fact in dramatic decline

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More market days for Aylsham and North Walsham

More market days for Aylsham and North Walsham

| August 26, 2012

Regular and varied market days are set to become a crowd-pulling feature of Aylsham following a community drive to boost the town.

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Plea for younger traders to set up their stall at market

Plea for younger traders to set up their stall at market

| August 20, 2012

More young traders are needed at Britain’s 2,000 markets if ‘Queen of shops’ Mary Portas’s Love Your Local Market campaign is to succeed.

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Trowbridge may host weekly market

Trowbridge may host weekly market

| August 20, 2012

TROWBRIDGE could have a weekly market in Fore Street by the winter in what the organisers hope will be a boost for the town centre.

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Teenager slams Stockport’s Mary Portas Pilot ‘betrayal’

Teenager slams Stockport’s Mary Portas Pilot ‘betrayal’

| August 7, 2012

The teenager behind a winning Mary Portas bid for cash to rejuvenate Stockport has slammed town hall bosses claiming they have ‘betrayed’ the idea behind it.

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Cambridge ‘Love your local market’

Cambridge ‘Love your local market’

| June 26, 2012

Cambridge Markets are not giving stalls to students – this information is incorrect.

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Simon serves up a treat for shoppers

Simon serves up a treat for shoppers

| June 26, 2012

CELEBRITY chef Simon Rimmer and Apprentice semi-finalist Adam Corbally surprised market-goers in Bolton when they turned up to give shoppers advice.

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Love your local market….even more

Love your local market….even more

| June 22, 2012

The cost of having a market stall is just £10 per day of trading

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Pop into town and discover reasons to love your market

Pop into town and discover reasons to love your market

| June 22, 2012

BEAUTY treatments, hand-crafted cards and potted plants are just some of the goods budding entrepreneurs will be trading in Bolton’s pop-up market.

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