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The Financial Times reports that retailer Wilko will “disappear from the high street next month” as another rescue deal fell through. Around 300 of the flagship stores are due to close, leading to some 12,500 redundancies. The chain’s collapse is “a further blow to hollowed-out high streets across the UK”, the paper adds. It pictures destroyed homes in Amizmiz, Morocco, after an earthquake during the weekend killed nearly 2,700 people.