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WH Smith, UK: Online Shopping at WH Smith Is So Easy! - Bugsy Malone Special Edition (DVD) One of the best-loved and most original movies from the 1970s gets a chance to enchant another generation. Bugsy Malone features a cast of kids including a young Jodie Foster custard pie weapons and a handful of great tunes. In 1929 New York a war rages between two rival gangsters Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new weapon the dreaded splurge gun which fires ice cream. Meanwhile as the custard pies fly Bugsy Malone falls for Blousey Brown a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself. The special edition DVD features an exclusive commentary with director Alan Parker as well as teaser trailers promotional reel production stills biographies trivia notes original set design artwork press reviews and fan mail. ... Haynes Sex Manual The Practical Step-by-step Guide to Sexual Health and Enjoyment Sex and cars have been inextricably linked for years - it must be something to do with the pistons - so what more logical than a sex manual from Haynes? Along the same lines as the 'Man' and 'Baby' manuals 'The Haynes Sex Manual' offers down-to-earth advice (but no step-by-step photos this time) on all possible health and recreational aspects of the popular pastime. Dr. Ian Bank's style is as robust and realistic as usual with his experience as medical advisor to 'The Good Sex Guide Late' on television turned to good account. Following the tried and tested Haynes formula there are detailed explanations of how the relevant parts of the male and female bodies work and fit together what happens if they don't and what can be done to put things right. Technical illustrations in the familiar Haynes style are complemented by cartoons from Jim Campbell. There is also a light-hearted look at what sexual positions are achievable in particular models of car called Carma Sutra. Other chapters cover topics including: contraception erectile dysfunction (impotence) common (and not so common) myths sexuality and trans-sexuality groups fetishes and toys and fault finding charts. ... Rebecca Forced by the sudden death of her father to act as paid companion to the comical - and tiresome - Mrs Van Hopper our herione meets handsome widower Maxim de Winter on a trip to Monaco and accepts his sudden marriage proposal. But she is unprepared for the shadows cast by his past. ... Con Air - (DVD) Fasten your seat belts as Oscar winner Nicolas Cage takes you on the most dangerous flight of you life in the smash hit action thriller from the creator of The Rock and Crimson Tide. On an aircraft carrying some of the most notorious criminals of all time the recently paroled Cameron Poe (Cage) is hitching a ride home to his wife and daughter. But he suddenly finds himself embroiled ina mid-air skyjacking mastermind by Cyrus "The Virus" Grissom (John Malkovich)... ... Urban Hymns The final breakthrough for The Verve. Despite so many rows that the reporting press lost count Richard Ashcroft Nick McCabe Simon Tong and Peter Salisbury got it together for long enough to produce an album containing everything music fans were looking for. Anthems strong rhythms glorious guitar work and emotive vocals Urban Hymns quickly became the UK’s favourite album. Leadman Richard Ashcroft was awarded the title of Best Songwriter at the 1998 Ivor Novello Awards. ... D-Day June 6 1944 The Battle for the Normandy Beaches It is the young men born into the false prosperity of the 1920s and brought up in the bitter realities of the Depression of the 1930s that this book is about. The literature they read as youngsters was anti-war and cynical portraying patriots as suckers slackers and heroes. None of them wanted to be part of another war. They wanted to be throwing baseballs not handgrenades; shooting .22s at rabbits not M-1s at other young men. But when the test came when freedom had to be fought for or abandoned they fought" (from the Prologue). On the basis of 1400 oral histories from the men who were there this account reveals how the intricate plan for the invasion of France in June 1944 had to be abandoned before the first shot was fired. The true story of D-Day as Stephen Ambrose relates it is about the citizen soldiers - junior officers and enlisted men - taking the initiative to act on their own to break through Hitler's Atlantic Wall when they realized that nothing was as they had been told it would be. ...
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WHSmith (WHS) is one of the UK's leading retail groups incorporating market leading companies in retail, publishing and news distribution. The Group has 1,464 stores world-wide, 30,747 employees in 12 countries and sales of some £2.9bn.
WHSmith is the UK's number one family retailer selling a range of products that extends across education, entertainment and information. Each year WHSmith High Street stores sell enough pens to circle the earth; enough books to fill a library shelf from London to Edinburgh; and enough paper to write a letter to everyone in the world. WH Smith also sell 122 million magazines and newspapers each year - enough to make a pile 69 times taller than Mount Everest.
The first High Street store was a small news vendor opened in 1792 in Little Grosvenor Street, London, by Henry Walton Smith and his wife Anna. Today, WHSmith has 545 High Street stores, covering over 3 million square feet of selling space and employing 17,000 staff. Clubcard, the Company's loyalty scheme, has more than 5 million members.
Books, newspapers, magazines and stationery form the core of the High Street business. WHSmith sell more books than any other retailer in England, Scotland and Wales. For example, one in three copies of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire were bought from WHSmith in the first weekend of release. WHSmith promote new authors with their Fresh Talent showcase and also have the Thumping Good Read Award that is voted for by members of Clubcard.
WHSmith's major stores stock more than 45,000 product lines, whereas an average food supermarket carries around 10,000 lines.
WHSmith currently holds a strong market share in each of the core categories in which it trades - books, stationery, news, magazines and entertainment. WH Smith's strategy is to exploit the strength, power and potential of the WHSmith brand to provide the very best service and value for money for their customers, shareholders and wider community.
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