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Article: Businesses lose a day of trading after fire at next
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- Citizen Gloucestershire, The
- Article date:
- August 27, 2008
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Investigations are continuing into the cause of the fire which
gutted the Next store in Quedgeley.
Businesses close to the store lost a whole day of trade as shops
had to be abandoned as the blaze broke out on Sunday.
Yesterday the empty shell of the store stood blackened in St
James' Park, with doors and windows clouded by smoke damage and
singed mannequins still standing in their displays.
Burnt insulation materials littered the floor at the side of the
building and shoppers going into nearby stores peered in through the
smoky windows to assess the damage.
It is not yet known what caused the fire which destroyed the
first floor of the store.
At Brantano Footwear, next door to damaged ...