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HMV is back on Oxford Street bringing the old-school music experience to a new generation

“What musicians want,” said composer Sir Edward Elgar as he inaugurated the first HMV shop in London in 1921, “is more listeners, and the dissemination of good music by the gramophone will give us a new public which will … listen to it with true appreciation.”

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Westminster Council pushes ahead with plans to pedestrianise roads near Oxford Street

The project is expected to cost £16.3 million and under the plans a pedestrianised zone with seating and trees will be created on Davies Street near Bond Street station

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Kebhouze: Britain's 'biggest kebab shop' to open on Oxford Street

The kebab chain already has two dozen sites across Italy and Spain, and its owner is an Instagram star

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Jingle bells: Singing postbox on Oxford Street to bring festive cheer in run-up to Christmas

The special postboxes respond to post with festive tunes such as Jingle Bells, We Wish You A Merry Christmas and Deck The Halls

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OPINION - Nowhere is better than London for Christmas, not even New York

I’m not sure there’s a better place to be at Christmas than London. When I was young, festive West End shopping trips were the things you looked forward to all year, whether it was seeing the Oxford Street lights (in the years before they started to be sponsored by the…

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HMV reopens on London’s Oxford Street after four-year absence

Retailer returns to site of its first store and lauds revival in sales of physical music formats such as CDs

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HMV promises to reach for stars as curtain goes up on reopened Oxford Street flagship store

HMV shut the store in 2019 after the retail chain tumbled into administration and was forced to axe stores and jobs

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HMV returns to historic Oxford Street shop

HMV shut the store in 2019 after the retail chain tumbled into administration and was forced to axe stores and jobs.

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HMV Reopening Raises Revival Hopes For London's Oxford Street

British music retailer HMV returns to the iconic site of its former flagship store in central London on Friday, in a much-needed boost to the flagging fortunes of the capital's premier shopping street.

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Could Tottenham Court Road become London’s nightlife epicentre again?

After more than a decade gutted by Crossrail, our favourite late-night haunt down the far end of Oxford Street is back, and has had quite the facelift, says Emily Phillips

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As Selfridges updates on ownership, new forecast shows retailer appetite for Oxford Street looks solid

Momentum on Oxford Street has been given a boost with a forecast anticipating that empty store numbers will fall over the next year, and a new majority ownership update for long-term occupier Selfridges.

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London's Christmas lights 2023 and switch-on dates, from Oxford Street to Kew Gardens

The capital's best festive lights? This is illuminating stuff, says Mike Daw

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Property giants join campaign for Hunt to restore VAT-shopping

While the number of visitors from the Gulf to Bond Street, Regent’s Street and Oxford Street is up 1% compared with 2022 their spending is down 17%

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London neighbourhood is UK's most overcrowded area

It isn't a tourism hotspot or in the centre of Oxford Street — but a suburban area you wouldn't expect

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Which shops are coming back? Paperchase in Tesco and HMV reopens in Oxford Street

After a four-year hiatus, HMV will reopen its former flagship location on London's Oxford Street

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Atilla died alone, and seemed to have no family. But a sex shop told a surprisingly different story

Atilla Demirer swiped in to his Sydney building in July 2021. There are no records of him leaving again before his body was found four months later. Was this just another case of fatal loneliness?

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Oxford Street ‘not what it used to be’, admits Sadiq Khan as he pursues pedestrianisation

The mayor said that while he “loves” Oxford Street, he acknowledges it “isn’t what it used to be”.

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West End could get ‘unique’ Christmas ice-skating rink in boost for Oxford Street

Christmas ice-skating rink in Hanover Square would raise money for Great Ormond Street Hospital

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OPINION - The Standard View: Anti-Semitic threats and attacks must not be tolerated

A Jewish person was on Oxford Street when the occupant of a passing van shouted, “you f***ing Jew, I will kill you whole”. An Orthodox Jewish man on a London bus was approached by a man who hit him in the face and tried to take his religious hat.

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New stores are sweet relief from Oxford St candy curse

City Voices: Oxford Street will be made wider, greener, and more pleasant to spend time on

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OPINION - No, Oxford Street is not dying and it is changing

Dylan Jones raised an important point last week — the future of Oxford Street goes beyond the transactional retail of the past, and that has been clear for some time.

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Oxford Street revival gathers pace as Krispy Kreme and Dr Martens plan flagship store openings

The new Krispy Kreme shop will include the ‘hotlight experience’, allowing customers to buy warmed doughnuts

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Moco: Major modern art museum approved for Oxford Street ‘in boost to West End’

A major modern art museum has been approved for Oxford Street in a “huge vote of confidence in London and the West End”.

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Oxford Street ‘curse’ appears to be lifting as American candy store numbers fall

The proliferation of the tacky ‘American-style’ shops has been seen as symbolic of the street’s decline

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OPINION - Dylan Jones: Oxford Street must change or die, because right now it’s dying

Oxford Street was built for lunchtime. At least it was for me. When I worked in the West End, if I wasn’t having a fancy lunch, at one o’clock I’d nip out from my office and spend the best part of an hour wandering up and down it, dipping into…

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