Economy‘Working our fingers to the bone’: Can the UK save its struggling high streets?

British small-business owners say tax relief expected in Wednesday’s budget will not be enough. Birmingham photographer Surpreet Suri is considering leaving his high-street premises as rent, business rates, wages, energy and materials costs weigh on earnings, while online retailers intensify competition.

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