Pictures show all the shop units sitting empty in Preston as city centre retailers continue to struggle

It seems that every other few days there are more household names getting into difficulty on the high street.

Preston's own MP said the city has ‘too many charity shops, vape stores and empty units’, so to gauge the severity of the problem, we sent our photographer out to have a look at the amount of empty shop units there are now in our city centre.

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The former BHS store on Fishergate, Preston
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