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A thriving corner shop in Corby will close next month due to the regeneration of area.

Like many small, independent shops it offers a friendly service where people on low incomes can buy essential items, like food, "on tick" and then pay off the debt when their pay packet or benefit arrives.

The shop is also used to buy top-ups for electricity and gas pre-payment meters. The problem for local people is that there is no other store nearby.

Reporter Martin Borley meets customers at the Anglia General Store on Canada Square in the Kingswood area of Corby, while Stuart talks to Clare Welton from Fuel Poverty Action, and to Councillor John McGhee, the local Borough ward councillor and a member of the ruling Labour group.

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