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Hello, James, do sit down.

Right, as you know,

our Nottingham centre has had a significant drop in income over the last few months.

In fact, it's doing much worse than our other British centres,

for reasons we haven't really been able to get to the bottom of.

The situation is now pretty worrying,

and even if immediate action is taken,

I don't expect Nottingham to return to profitability this year.

Now, it seems to me we have two options facing us.

The first is to see if we can create a strategy to keep the operation going,

and the second is to close it down completely.

What's your feeling about it?

Closing it down would be a disaster.

You know, when there was a situation like this in the European division,

they turned it around with a special promotion which worked very well.

Do you remember this time last year,

when we thought we'd have to sell some of the French centres?

Well, now they're doing well

and we didn't even have to spend any extra money on them, either.

Yes, that's true.

But Nottingham has lost nearly a million in the six months

and we can't afford to keep absorbing that kind of loss.