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W.G. Galen Weston, the Canadian billionaire who built his family’s bakery and grocery business into a global retail empire, died on Monday after a long illness. He was 80.
His contemporaries describe Weston as one of the most formidable and visionary leaders in Canadian business, a man of style and substance who turned Loblaw supermarkets into the biggest player in the country’s food chain.
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He was a philanthropist, a handsome and elegant dresser, a solid polo player into his middle age, a friend to the British Royal Family and reportedly the subject of a thwarted kidnapping plot by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in the 1980s. But those who knew him said he was a man most interested in other people, who preferred to spend his leisure time wandering the well-stocked aisles of Loblaws
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3:08 PM January 30, 2021
The Georgian building occupied by Anthony Fell Antiques in Holt is up for sale, with planning to be turned back into a house.
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A beautiful Georgian shop described as one of the most handsome buildings in Holt is for sale with permission to be a home again.
Anthony Fell, who has run his antiques firm from Chester House, Bull Street, for 20 years is selling the premises but not the business. He continues to trade and will do after the building is sold.
The beautiful Chester House, which is for sale.
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With nearly all its big-name tenants gone, Lloyd Center is little more than a cavernous shell and appears at risk of becoming a 23-acre dead weight in a neighborhood that has struggled with crime for many years.