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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.
The most successful of these was "Night Fever", which reached number-one in April. Kate Bush made her UK top 10 debut in 1978 with her first single release, "Wuthering Heights", which spent four weeks at number-one. Bush also became the first female artist to have an entirely self-penned number-one hit in the UK.
118 118 company logo. 118 118 is the UK telephone number for a US owned directory enquiries provider. Once wildly popular for its advertising featuring two runners, the service has experienced a dramatic decline in calls due to easily accessible information via mobile devices.
The number of independent banks shrank further during 2008: Northern Rock was nationalised by the UK Government (and is now owned by Virgin Money), followed by Bradford & Bingley; Alliance & Leicester was acquired by Santander, who merged it into Santander UK.
Legendary French singer Charles Aznavour (pictured in 2014), achieved his sole UK top 10 entry in June with "She", the theme tune from the television series Seven Faces of Woman, which spent four weeks at number-one. Barry White made his UK top 10 debut in 1974, with two singles making the countdown, including his only number-one hit, "You're ...
The 1976 Christmas number-one, "When a Child Is Born" by Johnny Mathis, remained at number-one for the first week of 1977. The first new number-one single of the year was "Don't Give Up on Us" by David Soul. Overall, eighteen different songs peaked at number-one in 1977, with ABBA and David Soul (2) having the joint most songs hit that position.
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.
112, or one-one-two is the emergency telephone number across the European Union (EU), United Kingdom (UK - where it works parallel to 999), and other non-EU countries, and on Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile telephone networks across the world. Alternate emergency telephone number for tourists in Macau.