The reason is there had been a leak to Sky News of a couple of the figures, which showed that - as expected - sales of clothes and general merchandise have been poor in the last three months of the year, which includes the important Christmas period.

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If watching all that tired you out, you could retreat to see the Laundrettas, offering hand-washing, gin and tonics and general pampering "because we like dressing as 1950s clothes and being bored housewives".

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