A BUDGET homeware chain is opening a second shop in the borough, after the success of it’s first site. Home Bargains will launch the new store in the former Mothercare shop at the Mayflower Retail Park in Basildon in July, creating 60 new jobs. The other store is at the Westgate Shopping Centre in the borough. Residents and councillors say this is the latest new addition to the booming retail park. The retail park already has Marks and Spencers, River Island, Greggs, Next, Superdrug and more retailers. Paul Noakes, 72, chairman of the Noak Bridge Residents Association said: “I am not surprised the chain wants to open another store, the shops are great and it is at the upper end of the budget store market.
A BUDGET homeware chain is opening a second shop in the borough, after the success of it’s first site. Home Bargains will launch the new store in the former Mothercare shop at the Mayflower Retail Park in Basildon in July, creating 60 new jobs. The other store is at the Westgate Shopping Centre in the borough. Residents and councillors say this is the latest new addition to the booming retail park. The retail park already has Marks and Spencers, River Island, Greggs, Next, Superdrug and more retailers. Paul Noakes, 72, chairman of the Noak Bridge Residents Association said: “I am not surprised the chain wants to open another store, the shops are great and it is at the upper end of the budget store market.
A hungry Great Dane had to be rescued by vets after gorging on an unusual Christmas meal of tinsel.
Footage shared by the PDSA showed the charity’s staff pulling the three-foot decoration from 10-year-old Dexter’s stomach in one piece.
Owner Paul Noakes, 56, from Margate, said it was not the first time Dexter had eaten something he should not have.
“When he was younger, he used to eat sofas and carpets, and two years ago at Christmas he ate tinsel, although we didn’t know straight away,” he said.
“He wasn’t ill at all, and the first we knew was when it started coming out in pieces at both ends!”
Share When he was younger, he used to eat sofas and carpets, and two years ago at Christmas he ate tinsel, although we didn t know straight away, he said. Pictured: The X-Ray showing the tinsel in Dexter s stomach When he was younger, he used to eat sofas and carpets, and two years ago at Christmas he ate tinsel, although we didn t know straight away, he said. He wasn t ill at all, and the first we knew was when it started coming out in pieces at both ends!
The family had been at pains to keep all decorations from Dexter since the incident.
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