High street ‘decimated’ as British handbag chain shuts down FOUR stores for good after decades of trading

A MUCH-LOVED retailer has been forced to close a string of its high street branches “with a heavy heart”. A clothing and handbag chain has shut four shops in the north west of England and Scotland after decades of success in the region. Lakeland Leather opened in Cumbria in 1955. The business expanded nationwide throughout the decades to become a household...