Protesters against corporate tax avoidance targeted businesses in 55 towns and cities across the UK, including Truro, on Saturday.
Billed as "pay-day",the protests were organised by UK Uncut, the anti-corpoate tax avoidance group that has grown rapidly since being formed by 12 activists in the a pub in north London.
Store closures were also reported in Edinburgh, Manchester, Cambridge, Liverpool, Wrexham, Tunbridge Wells, Bristol, Nottingham and Oxford, and in London.
The Arcadia Group, owned by Sir Philip Green, who has been drafted in by the coalition government as a "cuts advisor", has been focus for public anger.
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