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The company planned to use that store as a test model prior to fine-tuning and expanding in that region. In April 2017, they bought a former B&Q store in Folkestone to be the fifth Bunnings store in the UK. [47] On 25 May 2018, after mounting losses, Wesfarmers sold the UK and Ireland Bunnings/Homebase operation to Hilco for a nominal sum of £ ...
This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days. [1]
This is a list of political scandals in the United Kingdom in chronological order. Scandals implicating political figures or governments of the UK , often reported in the mass media , have long had repercussions for their popularity.
The Labour government gave independence to India and Pakistan in an unexpectedly quick move in 1947. One recent historian and Conservative party sympathiser Andrew Roberts says the independence of India was a "national humiliation" but it was necessitated by urgent financial, administrative, strategic and political needs. [ 23 ]
The desire for Indian unity was symbolised by the Cabinet Mission, which arrived in New Delhi on 24 March 1946, [2] which was sent by the British government, [3] in which the subject was the formation of a post-independent India. The three men who constituted the mission, A.V Alexander, Stafford Cripps, Pethick-Lawrence favoured India's unity ...
The business, focused on Bunnings hardware stores, became a national and international brand, with stores across Australia and New Zealand, [4] and until 2018, the UK and Ireland. [1] The state's logging competition, organised by the Australia Day Sports Committee, named the 12in. standing block the Robert Bunning Memorial Cup, after Bunning ...
This is a list of recessions (and depressions) that have affected the economy of the United Kingdom and its predecessor states. In the United Kingdom a recession is generally defined as two successive quarters of negative economic growth, as measured by the seasonally adjusted quarter-on-quarter figures for real GDP. Name Dates Duration Real GDP reduction Causes Other data Great Slump c. 1430 ...
India's share of global industrial output declined from 25% in 1750 to 2% in 1900. [14] From 1600 to 1871 the ratio of GDP per capita in India to that in Britain fell from more than 60% to less than 15%. [16] India's national debt ballooned under British rule, and half of India's revenue was being siphoned to foreign countries, primarily England.