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A Dorking jeweller is set to retire from his trade after more than 50 years because the town is on a "downward spiral".Leslie Gilbert, aged 70, is closing his jewellery shop in the town's High Street on October 27.Mr Gilbert, who owns and runs Leslie Gilbert Jewellers, said: "Over the last five or six years the footfall in the town has gone down by around 50 per cent. No business can survive on that."Among the issues keeping people away, Mr Gilbert says, are high levels of...

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