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Thousands of people gathered from shortly after midnight at major shopping centres around the country, such as Westfield in London, Bluewater in Kent and Birmingham's Bullring, where Debenhams, Selfridges and Next were offering discounts of up to 50%.

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Extra buses have been laid on for shoppers heading for the West End and for the Westfield shopping centres in east and west London.

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Westfield has had its eye on the south London town since 2011 when it began talks to revamp the Whitgift Centre.

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Indeed, John Meadowcroft, a political scientist at London University's Queen Mary and Westfield College, argues in a recent Political Quarterly that they are more recognisably social democrat than liberal.

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Croydon was a "strategic location" which could bring millions of people to a part of London "under-served by high-quality retail and leisure facilities", Westfield said in a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange.

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