Harrowing images have emerged showing a faeces-filled home where 11 dogs were kept in squalid conditions. The urine-soaked spaniels were crammed inside stacked cages while one pup was found dead in the corner of a crate.
12.09.2023 - 15:35 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Poundland owner Pepco will buy up to 71 Wilko stores as the chain sets to close indefinitely.
Administrator PwC said that Pepco agreed on the deal which will see the stores reopen under the Poundland brand. Workers at the stores will not directly be transferred as part of the move.
However, Poundland said it will 'prioritise' existing Wilko workers to work at Poundland once the shops are opened under the new brand. Poundland said its new lease agreements are set to be completed by the "early autumn" and aims to open up the new stores by the end of 2023.
Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features
Joint administrator Edward Williams said: "Alongside the previously announced agreement with B&M, we're confident this sale will create a platform for future employment opportunities for people including current Wilko team members at up to 122 locations.
"We will continue to engage with other retailers around any interest in other Wilko sites and are confident of completing a sale of the brand and intellectual property within the coming days."
Join our WhatsApp Top Stories and Breaking News group by clicking this link
It comes after administrators announced that all of Wilko's remaining stores, warehouses, and support centre, workers will lost their jobs after failing to secure a rescue deal. Family-owned Wilko employed 12,500 staff and ran 400 shops before it hired administrators early last month after it came under pressure from weak consumer spending and debts to suppliers.
The announcement comes on the final day of trading for 24 Wilko stores, in the first phase of the chain’s mass closures involving more than 100 stores.
Harrowing images have emerged showing a faeces-filled home where 11 dogs were kept in squalid conditions. The urine-soaked spaniels were crammed inside stacked cages while one pup was found dead in the corner of a crate.
Tesco has issued a message to anyone with an air fryer and says that it starts "next week".
beloved Irish rock band officially christened Sphere — a 20,000 capacity, $2.2 billion state-of-the-art venue from the Madison Square Garden Company — Friday night in Las Vegas. For months now, it has snatched the world’s attention for its massive exterior that doubles as a video screen which quickly become a staple on the Sin City strip.The term immersive doesn’t give this production its due justice.
Controversial Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy doesn’t like what he’s seen about how the journalism sausage is made.
Literally” podcast last month.Bacon said he bought the “turn of the century” rural farm in 1983 to buy a horse with an ex-girlfriend.He bought up plots around his property every few years to keep the area private.The “Mystic River” actor said the previous owner, who he didn’t name, “went back and forth on it for a while” about Bacon buying the plot with the exclusion of the building.“Eventually, I said, ‘Listen, you can’t sell me a piece of land but not sell me the house that’s on it. Like, that’s just weird,” Bacon said.After much persistence from Bacon, the land owner revealed his horrifying reason for hesitating to sell the plot to the actor.“He said, ‘I can’t sell it to you because it’s haunted, and I’m afraid that you’ll get possessed and, you know, do some serious damage,'” the “Apollo 13” star recalled.Bacon and the owner later came to an agreement but under one condition.
An award-winning Perth tattoo shop is set to shut after 18 years due to the owner’s health issues and rising costs.
it was announced that The Leadmill was facing a threat of closure due to its landlord issuing a notice of eviction. The news sparked an outcry from music industry figures and gig-goers alike.A licence hearing then began this Monday (September 18) to determine the future of the venue, with the barrister acting for Leadmill boss Phil Mills accusing the new owner Dominic Madden of “arrogance”.The building’s owners, Electric Group, who bought the site’s freehold in 2017, previously told music fans that they had no intention of closing the venue at the end of the current occupiers’ lease in 2023.
The date the final Wilko stores will close for good has been announced. The collapsed retailer will shut its final 111 stores on Sunday October 8.
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Italy’s Fandango Sales has taken international distribution rights to quirky comedy “Volare” about the fear of flying that marks the directorial debut of actor Margherita Buy. Buy is known internationally for frequent roles in Nanni Moretti movies, most recently in “A Brighter Tomorrow” that launched from Cannes. Her smart concept movie is being lead-produced by Simone Gattoni for Kavac Film, the company founded by veteran auteur Marco Bellocchio.
The nights drawing in and the weather turning colder can only mean one thing: autumn is on the way.
Fans of a New York-style piano bar and cabaret lounge in Manchester city centre are being offered the chance to become a part-owner from as little as £10.
A Scots dad says his family is distraught over the news that their much-loved dog may be banned.
Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards and Features Editor This article first appeared as part of Jenelle Riley’s Acting Up newsletter – to subscribe for early content and weekly updates on all things acting, visit the Acting Up signup page. Kelly Moscinski became the owner and head of casting at the Voicecaster, she had plans to become a psychiatrist. But while enrolled as a pre-med student at college, she discovered the theater department and, in her own words, “I knew my passions and my career path were shifting.” She swiftly changed her major to theater with a focus on directing, where she first began experiencing the world of voice acting through various productions and helping actor friends. She moved to Los Angeles in 2009, open to several different career paths (she sent out over 350 letters and resumes) and was eventually hired at the Voicecaster as a casting assistant.
Apple's brand new handset, the iPhone 15 is now available to pre-order and demand has seen huge online queues.
A number of Wilko stores have been snapped up by rival brands after the popular retailer fell into administration last month.
Wilko's future has been hanging in the balance after the homeware retailer fell into administration in August.
Hundreds of Wilko stores will close throughout autumn and winter.
All 400 Wilko stores will close by early October with the loss of thousands of jobs, the GMB union has said.
More than 50 Wilkos stores are to close with the loss of 1,016 jobs, administraors have confirmed.
Wilko has been saved from collapsing into administration by fellow retailer B&M in a rescue deal that will save over 50 stores from going into administration.