The Latest Breaking News from Home Bargains

Retail push months in advance means last-minute shoppers may risk missing out on gifts – and leads to demands for rules

Creativity was certainly on the cards for this year's Christmas decorations

Home Bargains sets up confidential hotline where customers can give the company information on shoplifters

The closure of the firm’s remaining 400 stores and the loss of 9,100 staff was confirmed by administrators PwC on Monday

Poundland, Home Bargains and The Range also in talks to snap up some of stricken retailer’s outlets

UK retailer, which has about 400 shops, likely to shut some branches ‘in near future’ after no buyer found

Yuletide goods on sale alongside summer lines and before Halloween items annoyed locals in Home Bargains in Denbigh

Administrators try to secure rescue deal for retailer, with talks expected to go on well into next week

By selling pick ‘n’ mix, stationery, garden tools and bird boxes, Wilko has spent the last 90 years transforming from a one-store business into one of the UK’s major budget retail players. It now has around 400 stores, but it has also become the latest high street shop to face…

Analysts partly blame too many large stores selling low-profit goods on dearer high street locations

The discount homeware store is launching bakeries in 69 venues across the UK