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B&Q is adding the stores to its existing range of eight, in a move intended to increase home improvement offerings for its customers. ADVERTISEMENT Home improvement giant B&Q Ireland is to buy three leasehold Homebase stores in Ireland for £3.2m (€3.86m). The stores will subsequently be converted to the B&Q banner, from Homebase, with the first one expected to be …

A five-day strike by Starbucks baristas has closed almost 60 stores across the United States as of Monday according to the union organising the protest. ADVERTISEMENT The five-day strike from the Starbucks workers’ union which began in Los Angeles, Chicago and the coffee shop’s hometown of Seattle is threatening to quickly spread nationwide over continued contract disputes. The strikes have …