-..I fhg Clitheroe Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 No. 6,377 news and views from the Centre of the Kingdom
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s in store for ‘Homebase’? by Julie Magee
SPECULATION is rife in the town about Clitheroe’s
disused Homebase store. • Rumours th a t the s to re ,
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Pfho could shoot such a beauty?
■'JA'PEREGRINE FALCON similar to this has been
f round h'adly wounded in Grindlcton Quarry. ^ The landowner has offered a substantial reward
|for information leading to the conviction of
any.per- ;i son connected with the incident. |g?^#'For full story and x-ray image of the damaged pbiridrturn'to page 2.
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which now dominates th e . entrance to th e town from Whalley Road, is to be split and sold off as units , as well as reports th a t Marks and Spencers is interested in buying the completed, but currently empty, building are rampant. . These seem to have been
fuelled by the release of gloomy half yearly results yesterday by ■ Homebase’s parent company, the Home Retail Group. L The group, which also owns Argos, revealed a £437 million loss in the first half and warned that profits will be at the bot
tom end of city forecasts. It is believed hearsay that the store could be split into separate ' -.units could have originated
'.from a “To L e t” sign fixed to : the Queensway site’s boundary wall.
However, Michael Robinson; •
. speaking on behalf of Rectella In te rn a t io n a l , th e previous occupier -of th e building, explained this had been there for the past two years. . •No other p a r ty a p a r t from Homebase is now connected
" with the site, asiNelson-based ; Barnfield Construction, who
built the £2m. store, completed the project in August. Marks and Spencers have cat
egorically .denied reports that it. has any interest in the site. Despite repeated requests
from this newspaper, a spokes woman for the Home Re ta il.
■ Group th is week once again could n o t confirm when th e
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store would open and could give no update on the current situa tion. ■ Picture, by F aiz a Afzaal, shows the empty Homebase store and inset th e sign draped during the store’s construction which indicated that Homebase
■ would open during the autumn of 2008. ' ‘
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