
Once bustling UK seaside town now full of abandoned buildings as local beg ‘we need shops’ | UK | News
Residents in Blyth, Northumberland, say “shoplifting and drug abuse” are rampant in their town and that they desperately need basic retail services to return. The town, which has a population shy of 40,000, is littered with derelict buildings and boarded-up shops. Blyth, part of the traditional Red Wall, voted for Labour at the last General…