In the following year the town's population of about 4,000 dropped by nearly half, and as businesses and supermarkets closed, Qantas cut its services, and houses were left empty, the exodus began to take a toll on the mental health of those who stayed behind.
"They seem to think that just because I did a speech in front of my class I can open supermarkets and stuff.
Hungary has approved new and higher taxes on soap, alcohol, advertising and supermarkets, the latest in a series of unorthodox levies put forward by the prime minister, Viktor Orbán.
Make a simple pasta with the cheaper trimmings of Scottish smoked salmon available in supermarkets.
The people who run our supermarkets, obsessed as they are with "price matching" and "meal deals", seem not to have noticed this.
At the bottom end, consumers are beginning to see through the old lie that supermarkets are always cheaper (my greengrocer beats the prices at Sainsbury's every time, which is why there's always a queue).
FD In the world of large-scale supermarkets, pretty produce rules.
More than half of the food in Russia's supermarkets is imported, and, when it comes to Russian consumer goods, most are either poor quality or simply do not exist.
Katherine Brown, director of the Institute of Alcohol Studies thinktank, said: "Before addressing individual drinkers it's important to begin by tackling the problem at the source, making it less easy to access cheap strong drink in supermarkets at all hours.
He said: "The biggest danger to the pub industry is the continuing tax disparity between supermarkets and pubs … There is a growing realisation among politicians, the media and the public that pubs are overtaxed".
Supermarkets Carrefour Cité Europe (9am-10pm weekdays, 9am-8pm Sundays) The mother of all supermarkets is in the Cité Europe shopping mall near the Eurotunnel, which also contains scores of shops from Go Sport to Toys R Us.
