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The Guardian criticized the property's location as being, "on the tattier eastern side of Oxford Street with more prestigious Selfridges, John Lewis and Bond Street to the west."

These include the shoddy German Market with its neverending conveyor belt of porcelain tat, even tattier clothes and, worst of all, tasteless sausages whacked between two insipid and ghastly pieces of bread roll.

And that investigation will be minimised if you opt for one of the later post-2011 facelifted variants we've been looking at here, cars which will have led slightly easier lives than earlier and potentially tattier examples.

Don''t wait until the weather gets warmer to dig out your sunny day frocks, now is the time to be relegating the tattier ones to the recycle bin, sending the mistakes to the charity shop and marching the broken ones to the menders, so that when the time comes for the sun to bless us with its rays, like a Boy Scout, you''re prepared.

I had kept various items made by my own children at school, which became tattier by the year, but which definitely meant Christmas to me.

And to make matters worse the ones flying on the Shaikh Khalifa Bridge are even dirtier and tattier!

The Kinfayre used to be a grubby village pub whose main attraction was an even tattier skittles alley.

Buy them slightly tattier on the private market and you'll save about a grand.

THEY don't come much tattier than the tale of English football hero Wayne Rooney's scruffy little bash in the bathroom of a Liverpool council flat.

Often they soldiered on for years, getting tattier by the month until finally they collapsed in a heap of rust (though,notoriously, the BBC's Top Gear team tried -and failed -to destroy a farmer's Toyota pick-up by fire, water andgravity).