An MP promises Margate will get £100,000 to revamp its high street whether or not traders take part in a Mary Portas TV show. full story ![]()

When is a delay not a delay? The answer, it seems, is when it involves the Department for Communities and Local Government’s one-year-on progress report on the so-called Portas Pilots, following the recommendations made by the retail expert Mary Portas.
standard.co.uk (1 month and 15 days ago)

The 12 towns awarded a total of £1.2m to help kickstart the regeneration of British High Streets following a report by Mary Portas (pictured), have spent just 12 per cent of the funding.
dailymail.co.uk (3 months and 6 days ago)
MARY Portas has been accused of fabricating scenes in her latest TV show, in which she aims to save the ailing high street in a seaside town.
dailyexpress.co.uk (2 days ago)

The shopping expert Mary Portas spent weeks filming attempts to revive high streets in three of the locations chosen to pilot the retail "revolution", but some others who worked away from the camera have not yet received a visit from the TV star, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal. A series of freedom of information requests show that of the first dozen "Portas...
guardian.co.uk (7 days ago)

Retail expert Mary Portas is to launch an over-65s employment agency for a new Channel 4 series.
telegraph.co.uk (20 days ago)
Best known for her fashion and retail experience, Mary Portas has revealed that she's turning her hand to a new type of market - recruitment for the over 65's.
dailyexpress.co.uk (20 days ago)
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independent.co.uk (18 days ago)
Joe Barratt, organiser of The Teenage Market and the young filmmaker behind Stockport's Portas Pilot bid video, expresses his frustration at how Stockport's Portas Pilot is being led by a committee, rather than the community.It's been over a year since the government announced that it would award £100,000 to 12 towns across the country as part of Mary Portas' recommendations...
guardian.co.uk (2 months and 2 days ago)

Mary Portas heads to Debenhams, one of the anchors of Britain's high streets.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 15 days ago)

They were the 12 towns that the Government boasted would be in the "the vanguard of a revolution" to revive the UK's battered high streets, with Mary Portas, the retail expert and TV personality, parachuted in to lead the initiative.
independent.co.uk (3 months and 6 days ago)
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