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
Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy Krishnan Guru-Murthy (born 5 April 1970) is a British journalist on Channel 4. He presents the "Channel 4 News" and the foreign affairs documentary series "Unreported World". Guru-Murthy's father, a consultant radiologist, worked in Blackburn and Burnley; the family lived at West Bradford, Lancashire, before moving to a 'gothic folly' with four acres of land in a village outside Burnley. Guru-Murthy was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School in Blackburn, which was independent at the time but is now a Free School, followed by Hertford College at the University of Oxford, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics.