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
Queen of Swords (TV series) "copied protectable elements from [the] 'Zorro' character and 'Zorro' related works". On April 5, 2001, U.S. District Judge Collins, denied Sony's motion for a preliminary injunction, noting, among other points, "that since the copyrights in <nowiki>[</nowiki>Johnson McCulley's 1919 short story<nowiki>]</nowiki> "The Curse of Capistrano" and [the 1920 movie] "The Mark of Zorro" lapsed in 1995 or before, the character Zorro has been in the public domain." As to specific elements of "The Mask of Zorro", the judge found that any similarities between the film and the TV series' secondary characters and plot elements were insufficient to warrant an injunction. Queen