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By 2000, B&Q had 51 large warehouse shops; this had doubled by 2003. By May 2014, B&Q in the United Kingdom had 359 shops, and 20,887 employees; [36] and eight shops in Ireland. [37] In March 2015, Kingfisher said it would close 60 B&Q shops in the United Kingdom and Ireland over the next two years, and a few loss-making shops elsewhere in Europe.
Other large employers include Tesco (whose distribution centre for Scotland and Northern Ireland is located on the northern edge of the town), Schuh (whose head office and customer service centre is on the Deans Industrial Estate in Livingston), [56] Shin-Etsu Europe (who have a manufacturing facility in Livingston that produces semiconductors ...
B&Q Holywood Exchange opened in August 2003. Sainsbury's Holywood Exchange opened in September 2003 with a sales area of 3,809 m 2 (41,000 ft 2 ) [ 8 ] The retail warehouse units were not let after completion; they are “the subject of strict guidelines that dictate that only bulky goods can be sold” as a result of the legal challenges to ...
Asbestos insulating board (AIB), also known by the trade names Asbestolux and Turnabestos, is an asbestos-containing board formerly used in construction for its fire resistance and insulating properties. [1] These boards were commonly used in the United Kingdom from the 1950s until production ended in 1980.
Baillieston (Scots: Bailiestoun) [1] [2] is a working class suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is about 7 miles (11 km) east of the city centre. It is about 7 miles (11 km) east of the city centre. It also gives its name to Ward 20 of Glasgow City Council and forms part of the Glasgow East constituency of the UK Parliament .
The majority of those voting in Northern Ireland and in Scotland, however, voted for the UK to remain. [50] Of the parties in the Assembly, only the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), the Traditional Unionist Voice (TUV) and People Before Profit (PBP) had campaigned for a Leave vote.
Kirkcudbright has had a long association with the Glasgow art movement. Several artists, including the Glasgow Boys and the famed Scottish Colourists , such as Samuel Peploe and Francis Cadell , based themselves in the area over a 30-year period from 1880 to 1910, establishing the Kirkcudbright Artists' Colony .
Coatbridge is the home of one of Scotland's most visited museums, Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life, which contains an insight into the lives of working people in the West of Scotland. A miners' row of 1900s–1980s houses, a working tramway and a reconstruction coal mine can all be experienced on site.