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POLICE IN THE North are appealing for information after two hooded teenagers threatened shop staff with a taser in Belfast this afternoon.
The attempted armed robbery happened at a shop in the Oxford Street area at around 1.30pm.
The two youths – both aged in their late teens, according to witnesses – threatened staff with the stun gun before fleeing empty-handed.
One was wearing a white hooded top, and the other brown one.
Police at Musgrave Station are heading up the investigation, and the PSNI’s non-emergency number can be reached on ’101′.
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Lot of hate on here but I love H&M. Great clothes and not overpriced.
Dunno why anyone buys Penneys ill-fitting, poor quality clothing when for literally a couple of Euro more you can get decent stuff in H&M.
External investment continues – Wetherspoons, Tesco, McDonald’s, Deals, Aldi etc. etc.
Investment is a good thing. Confidence in the market. Jobs created. What every country needs.
It you walk from Stephens Green to Parnell Square – looking at the retail outlets – you could be in Glasgow, Sunderland or Lyon.
Just like the rest, we’ve lost our our identity completely.
Every high st in Europe has the same craps.
only if you define your national identity based on shopping.
I couldn’t care less where these shops come from or what “identity”they’re making , as long as they’re creating stable jobs and lots of them.
99 – ‘national’ wasn’t typed. Keep up.
What’s a high st
I love H&M, they do a good range of affordable clothes. I’ve been getting a lot of good work shirts there ever since I stopped buying charvet.
Dame street will become Dublins new shopping street. Always wondered why Abercrombie and Fitch never bought the building H&M are now in. It was on the market last year for €3 million. A&F pay an annual rent of €900k for the building they’re in.
Always thought that myself, would have had it paid off already!
Hoorah for cheap one wash clothing and the poor sweat shop workers who have to manufacture them.
I dunno. H&M is a member of the Ethical Trading Initiative apparently http://www.ethicaltrade.org/about-eti/our-members
Every clothing company basically uses the same sweatshops, without these clothing would be much more expensive, which most people wouldn’t be prepared to pay. Also no matter how expensive or cheap clothing is, all companies have had their own ethical scandals in this regard, no company is immune due to the fact they often outsource manufacturing to distance themselves if anything does go wrong
Kevin – do you include M&S?
Well a lot of main stream clothing is manufactured in very impoverished parts of the world paying pennys to anyone whos willing to work 12 hour shifts every day but top top brands create all designs from the respected countries they originate from, Italy, France etc. That aside Id happily pay a bit extra if i knew 100% that the poor who slave over our materialistic needs where given the decent wage so they dont have to suffer for our benefit!
Just open in Galway already!
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