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Top Homebase Alternatives with Enterprise-Grade Security for Enhanced Protection

In an age where data breaches and cyber threats are rampant, securing sensitive information has never been more critical.

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13 of the Best Paint Brands for Luxurious-Looking Interiors, as Rated by Professional Painters and Serial Redecorators

As it turns out, the people who know which paint brands really are the best are the people who paint walls with them day in and day out

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M&S to open 12 new food halls across UK - including biggest store yet

M&S revealed its plans for expansion as Metropolitan Police continue to investigate a cyber attack that has hit the company financially

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Competition intensifies to buy UK supermarket stores despite uncertainty

Grocery properties are ‘proving to be one of the most resilient and attractive investment sectors’, according to research by Colliers.

The Independent UK

6 Trees That Landscape Designers Will Never Plant When They're Trying to Make a Garden More Private

Looking to create a more secluded outdoor space? These are the trees to avoid that won't actually help screen your garden from neighbors

Livingetc

Do Ho Suh: Walk the House review – all the des res of one man’s life, right down to the towel rails

The Korean conceptualist invites us into all the spaces he’s lived in, re-created full-size in paper, polyester and fabric. It’s a bit like a vast portrait made in Homebase

The Guardian - UK

How to grow tomatoes vertically — the trick to getting a bumper crop of homegrown tomatoes in a tiny garden

Not sure how to grow tomatoes in a small space? It's time to take them to new heights...

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Homebase shop closures: Full list of 33 stores closing in February

It comes after 13 of the DIY chain's branches were shut last month

Evening Standard

WH Smith sale plan could turn some areas into ‘postal deserts’, says union

Retailer operates 200 post offices and potential closures called ‘devastating, but sadly all too predictable’

The Guardian - UK

B&Q to convert five Homebase stores after £2.5m deal

The deal, worth £2.5 million, will see the stores converted to B&Q shops by the end of the year.

Evening Standard

Restructurings could rise next year as Budget cost rises loom, warn experts

It comes after official figures pointed towards an uptick in insolvencies at the end of this year.

The Independent UK

Nearly 170,000 UK shop workers lost their jobs in 2024

Collapse of chains such as Homebase and Body Shop contributed to big rise, and another tough year is on the cards

The Guardian - UK

Almost 170,000 retail jobs axed in 2024 amid pain on high street

Figures compiled by the Centre for Retail Research showed that a number of major chain collapses contributed to a 41% jump in job losses.

Evening Standard

Homebase to live on within former stores reopened under the Range name

DIY brand will be used online and in some departments of new superstores opened from January

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Evening Standard

Company failures rise with more businesses in ‘perilous’ position

A total of 1,966 registered company insolvencies in November was 13% higher than in October.

Evening Standard

Homebase’s £5m tax rebate delay revealed as 74 stores go up for sale

The stricken firm has set a deadline of the end of next week for potential buyers to snap up its remaining shops in the UK and Ireland

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Homebase has collapsed into administration leaving 2,000 jobs at risk - this is what the news means for shoppers

The future of 49 Homebase stores are unclear

Evening Standard

Homebase bought out of administration securing up to 1,600 jobs

The deal to buy 70 stores came after Homebase appointed administrators on Wednesday but left 2,000 workers and 49 stores still at risk.

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The Independent UK

‘Del Boy billionaire’ steps in to save Homebase shops at risk from collapse

The DIY retail chain employs over 6,000 staff in the UK

The Guardian - UK

Homebase collapses into administration with thousands of jobs at risk

Future of 2,000 staff remains unclear despite the bulk of stores being bought by the homeware retailer The Range

The National (Scotland)

Homebase ‘set for administration’ with thousands of jobs at risk across UK

HOMEBASE could be heading for a partial collapse, putting thousands of jobs at risk, amid reports that the chain has appointed insolvency experts…

Evening Standard

Homebase ‘set for administration’ with thousands of jobs at risk

The DIY retailer has struggled as customers cut back on spending amid the cost-of-living crisis.

The Guardian - UK

‘He wanted a better life’: the man who fell from a plane in search of a new start – and the brother who retraced his journey 20 years later

In 2001, a badly broken body was found in a London car park. Police said the man had tried to enter the UK by hiding in a plane’s landing gear. Two decades after the Guardian first told his tragic story, there was an unexpected twist

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Sainsbury’s to buy 10 Homebase stores and convert them into big supermarkets

First shop in £130m investment to open next summer as questions raised over DIY chain’s future

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