COMMENT: Creative thinking necessary to revitalise our high streets

It has been over a month since non-essential retail shops across the country were finally allowed to open their doors. Yet, as consumers tentatively emerge from lockdown, it is evident that the new world they are stepping into looks vastly different from the one they left behind.
A walk around our town centres now shows mandatory face masks, sanitising stations and long queues outside outlets – and despite cheery signs in shop windows welcoming customers back, there is no forgetting that