"The beating hearts of our high streets and communities"

Live music venues have (mercifully) enjoyed a reduction in business rates before , and will now do so again - along with pubs and clubs - from April next year. But independent bookshops have been excluded - something that the Booksellers Association, with the backing of a number of high-profile authors, is quite understandably petitioning the government to change , on the grounds that they too "…