A clothing shop on Dumbarton High Street has announced its closure.
Lady C Boutique has been run by Catherine Walsh for more than 40 years and will close its doors for the final time on November 5.
Catherine announced on Facebook that the store will close but remain online for customers.
Reporter, she said the store was 'no longer financially viable'.
Speaking to theShe said: "The overhead costs are just too expensive, everything's increased and I'm no longer getting full-rate relief which I was getting when I started out.
"The small business rates relief being gone is having an impact on small businesses.
"We are dependent on people coming through your doors and the cost of living is having an impact."
Catherine says she no longer receives the small business relief rate which is provided to properties with a rateable value less than £15,000.
"For independent clothes shop in the High Street and it's gone, you know, because everything else, you know, it's the supermarket's Peacocks, you know, big chains. But for small independents to survive in the High Street, now it's a real, real struggle, real struggle.
"Given the downturn in footfall on the High Street, it's just no longer financially viable."
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