The latest high-profile high street casualty was electrical chain Comet, which closed all its 236 stores this month.

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The administrators of electrical chain Comet will close its Hull Business Centre on Thursday, with the company's final 20 employees being made redundant.

BBC: Comet's last 20 workers in Hull to be made redundant

Camera chain Jessops has gone under, music and DVD group HMV has closed 66 stores, while electrical chain Comet closed its doors for the last time before Christmas.

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