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BHS Store Closures: Final 22 Branches To Shut on UK High Streets By Sunday

It's the end of an era for high street retailer BHS as its final 22 stores close their doors for the last time this Sunday.

The UK department store which employed around 11,000 people and had over 170 stores across the country, collapsed in April.

The administrators have already overseen the closure of 141 stores in recent weeks, including the flagship store in Oxford Street, in central London.

Nationwide (LSE: NBS.L - news) , red and yellow "everything must go" signs are littering shop floors, and some stores are even selling fixtures and fittings, including mannequins.

In March 2015, the retailer was sold for £1 by Arcadia Group chairman, Sir Philip Green, to former bankrupt Dominic Chappell, who in turn called in the receivers in May.

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Sir Philip was accused of extracting large sums of money from the firm and failing to resolve a £571m deficit in its pension fund, by a Parliamentary inquiry.

Despite promising MPs two months ago that he would "sort" the pensions black hole caused by the high street chain collapse, Sir Philip has taken no action, the co-chairman of the BHS inquiry Committee Ian Wright has told Sky News.

On Tuesday, Mr Chappell, who oversaw the collapse of BHS, said he felt sorry for the staff.

"I feel very sorry for them as I said publicly at the inquiry, but I'm afraid British Home Stores was a very difficult turnaround operation for us," he said.

"We failed in doing that and we regret the situation. But we're not the only ones under scrutiny at the moment.

"I can't say anything more because we're currently in three investigations which are coming to a close hopefully in the next three months and we'll see what happens."

Mr Chappell was speaking outside Aldershot Magistrates Court after being banned from driving for six months for speeding.