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Argos was launched with thousands of staff, taking £1 million during a week in November. [10] Argos was purchased by BAT Industries in 1979 for £32 million. In 1980, Argos opened its Elizabeth Duke jewellery counter (named after a director's wife) and by 1982, was the United Kingdom's fourth-biggest jewellery retailer.
Boyes took over the former Argos unit in the centre. [36] Boyes has expanded its reach further by opening several stores in the East Midlands and as far south as Cambridgeshire. The company reached its landmark 50th store with the opening of the Coalville store in July 2014. [37]
Between 1965 and 1974, the administrative county covering March was called Cambridgeshire and Isle of Ely. [13] March Urban District was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. District-level functions passed to the new Fenland District Council. A successor parish called March was created covering the area of the abolished urban ...
In 2017, the UK was the eleventh-largest goods exporter in the world [6] and the eighth-largest goods importer. [7] It also had the second-largest inward foreign direct investment, [8] and the third-largest outward foreign direct investment. [9] The UK left the European Union in 2019, but it remains the UK's largest trading partner.
The group's acquisitions have been largely funded by debt, with a net debt of nearly £8 billion in March 2023. [6] Since early 2023, the group has sold its U.S. forecourts in a sale-and-leaseback deal, as well as sold most of its UK assets to Asda , Zuber Issa (as EG On the Move ) and Yum!
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Three Horse Shoes signal box, named after the pub in Turves. Turves is a village in the civil parish of Whittlesey, Fenland District, Cambridgeshire, England. [1] It lies east of the town of Whittlesey, south of the A605 road and the Twenty Foot River, and on the Ely–Peterborough line railway between Whittlesey and March, with a level crossing in the village.
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