There are 11 near-identical shops in the centre of Huddersfield. Though owned by several different companies, they have similarly glitzy shopfronts, the same sort of friendly staff, and offer the same warm welcome. They also sell the same thing: nothing, unless you count occasional elation and frequent despair.Bookmakers’ shops are major presences in all our town centres, though many of them are just a place to site big-money slot machines. The law limits the number to four per shop, but they are absurdly profitable (£870 profit a week each), so the bookmakers have – it is suspected – manoeuvred around that by simply opening more shops.The first of three-parter Britain at the Bookies (20 July) took us into one of the Huddersfield shops, owned by Coral. It also took