Synopsis
Business journalist Adam Shaw investigates the government's plans to spend millions of pounds reviving run-down town centres.
- Programme: Panorama
- Episode: How to Save the High Street
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2020
- Geography | Changing Retail
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