UK high street giant's collapse into administration owing £20m - how it happened
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UK high street giant's collapse into administration owing £20m - how it happened
• It's now almost six months since the closure of a retail giant with stores across England leading to the loss of more than 1,000 jobs
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 | Witney Gazette - News (Witney, West Oxfordshire) · yesterday England's 'oldest ironmongers' closes last shop after nearly 500 years• The last shop of the 500-year-old business, in the High Street of a Cotswolds town, has closed. |
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