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Tesco is the largest supermarket chain in the United Kingdom.. As of May 2024, there are 17 supermarket chains currently operating in the United Kingdom.The food retail market has been dominated by the 'big four' supermarkets – Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons – who made up over three quarters of sector market share in 2010.
999 is the official emergency number for the United Kingdom, but calls are also accepted on the European Union emergency number, 112. All calls are answered by 999 operators, and are always free. [2] Approximately 35 million 999/112 calls are made in the UK each year, with 74% from mobiles and 26% from landlines in 2022. [3]
In 2000, 42 songs (not including Westlife's "I Have a Dream" / "Seasons in the Sun" which first reached number one at the end of 1999) hit the top spot, a UK charts record for most number ones in a calendar year.
The Monkees reached the UK chart with four top 10 singles this year, with their debut entry "I'm a Believer" spending four weeks at number-one. The Tremeloes had three top 10 singles in 1967, the highest-charting of which was chart-topper " Silence is Golden ".
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Don Cornell achieved his only UK top 10 single this year with the Oscar-nominated song "Hold My Hand", which spent five non-consecutive weeks at number-one. Kitty Kallen became a one-hit wonder in the UK charts in 1954 with her number-one hit " Little Things Mean a Lot ", which stayed in the top 10 for 20 consecutive weeks.
In 2015, Three UK proposed a £10.2bn merger with O2 UK, which would reduce the number of UK networks from four to three. [57] The deal would involve O2 owner Telefonica selling O2 UK to CK Hutchson (Three UK's owner) for £10.2bn, [ 58 ] and would have created the largest mobile network at the time.
On 5 January 1999, Vodafone UK connected its 5 millionth customer. By the end of 1999 it had 8 million customers, [8] rising to 12 million in 2001, [9] The first 3G voice call in the UK was made in April 2001 on the Vodafone UK network, with an initial network of 30 base stations in the Thames Valley set for the commercial launch in 2002. [10]