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
Heart of the Matter (TV series) on science and religion and included as guests David Starkey, Mary Warnock, Wentzel van Huyssteen, Richard Dawkins, Polish Roman Catholic priest and 2008 Templeton Prize winner cosmologist Prof. Michael Heller, and James Watson. "Heart of the Matter" was broadcast late on Sunday evenings, usually alternating with the similarly-themed "Everyman", though the latter tended to have more of a religious focus. Both programmes were cancelled in the 2000s following a revamp of BBC output. Heart of the Matter (TV series) Heart of the Matter is a British television debate series that aired on BBC One from 1979 to 2000. Presented variously