COMPANIES and shops that hope to succeed where others failed have filled some of the vacant properties in Town.

ISLANDERS with an interest in Guernsey’s Town Centre turned up in force to an open meeting held by the Town Centre Partnership.

MORE local jobs could be under threat after the company that owns Millets became the latest UK chain to run into financial difficulties.

SHOPPERS were busy grabbing a bargain in Le Lievre’s yesterday as the shop’s closing down sale started.  

LAST-MINUTE gifts flew off the shelves yesterday as islanders took advantage of the final late shopping evening before Christmas.

AN 18TH-CENTURY cemetery is to be turned into a woodland garden, if funding can be found.

A TOY shop, a high-end department store and a children’s clothes shop have been suggested as possible uses for the empty Marks & Spencer store in Smith Street.

A UK report which said town centres should act more like businesses to try and revitalise high streets, contained ideas that could work in Guernsey, according to the chief executive of the Town Centre Partnership.

WITH less than two weeks to go until Christmas, Town retailers said they had been enjoying a shopping boom.

LOSING more than 200 North Beach parking spaces could affect Guernsey for long after the harbour work had been completed, businessman Tony Creasey has warned.