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By Laura McGuire The boss of Timpson has sounded the alarm over the impact of retail parks on Britain’s high streets and said they are contributing to the demise of town centres. James Timpson, who heads up the key cutting to dry cleaning business, said the out-of-town retail hubs are a “big problem” and taking footfall away from town centres. The 52 year old, who oversees the running of over 1,000 stores across the UK, described some high streets as “terrible” and said it was like “everyone had given up”. He went on to compare the UK with Germany “where they don’t have many retail parks” and …