High Street as members of communities – the erosion of small shops is viewed as the erosion of the 'social glue' that binds communities together, entrenching social exclusion in the UK." In 2011, business consultant, Mary Portas, best-known for the TV Series, "Mary Queen of Shops", was commissioned by the UK government to provide an independent review of High Street shopping. The report provided evidence for the decline of High Street precincts such as data indciating that retail spending in High Street shops had fallen to below 50 per cent.Her final report set out a vision for High Streets and a number
Mary (1985 TV series) Mary (1985 TV series) Mary is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from December 11, 1985, to April 8, 1986. The series stars Mary Tyler Moore in her return to series television after an absence of over six years, during which time she appeared on Broadway in "Whose Life Is It Anyway?" and in the dramatic film "Ordinary People". After "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", her subsequent ventures into series television on the variety shows "Mary" (1978) and "The Mary Tyler Moore Hour" (1979) had been short-running ratings disasters, and Moore decided to return to the sitcom format which