Mary Queen Of The High Street

Can Mary Portas come to the rescue of Britain's failing high streets? It's at a crisis point, according to British Prime Minister David Cameron, so he turns to Mary for solutions, and this series follows the retail guru's progress. She devises the Portas Review, a 28-point regeneration and reinvention plan that includes such ideas as convincing landlords to give over their vacant shops for pop-ups, and transforming struggling small shops into `anchor stores'. Portas also prompts hundreds of local communities to put her ideas into practice, and the series shows how in three very different parts of Britain: Liskeard, a once-booming Cornish cattle market town; Margate, a faded and crumbling British Seaside town, and Roman Road, the oldest trading street in London. … MORE