New PwC and Local Data Company intelligence shows stores are disappearing from UK high streets at record rates.

Those with more than six stores are closing a net 28 daily compared with a net 20 a day on average in 2012 and 14 in 2011. The researchers warned the situation could get worse. Card, computer games, clothing, health food, banks, jewellers, travel agents, recruitment agencies and sports goods shops were among the hardest hit last year. Pound shops, charity shops, pawnbrokers, betting shops, supermarkets, coffee outlets and those offering payday loans grew. The research found that 1,800 more shops shut down last year than opened.