Furniture store Andrew Harris forced into administration (From Warrington Guardian)

is this the place that seems to burn down on a semi-regular basis when ever something like this happens. in a few weeks it will be a mouldering wreck for the insurance money

Have you got a light mate ??.

So it's going to be the end or the every week limited sale's then? Only joking it's a shame to see another company calling the administrators in, the comment about car parking in Warrington just isn't the point why shops are closing because there's plenty of carparks like the Cockhedge one that's free if you buy say a packet of cigarettes. The real problem is the increase in value of even the most basic things for families like bread while at the same time people are being made redundant by even big name companies or being changed from full to part times because the companies just can't afford to keep them on. The Government changing the rules of tax credits from 16 hours a week to qualify to 20 hours a week was a really low blow because a part time job is 16 hours a week not 20 and there's thousands who've had to go onto benefit's because of this change, it's not that they don't want to work 20 hours it's the fact that there's not 20 hours available. Add that to the fact that the only job's going are through tempory work agencies who've had to take a bigger chunk of their clients wages to stay afloat because everyone's gotta eat. A lot of the job's only end up being for a month at a time and anyone who's dealt with the job centre in the past know's that it take around that long to actually apply to recieving money from the Job Centre. I've not dealt with them for over a decade and that's what it was like then so i'd imagine it's even worse now with the town's unemployed population applying for benefits plus the ten's of thousand's of Eastern Europeans who've been laid off and have to claim UK benefits because they simply can't afford to go home and the majority of their home countries are just like the UK with no jobs. Now we're over populated because the Government won't do anything about it cause they're more bothered about being called racist than protecting Britain and it's traditional values and example of that was cut's in every sector of public spending by huge amount's with the only area getting increased and by a massive percentage was foreign aid by 27%! We even still give aid to China which is a hugely wealthy country that we actually owe money too so in effect we're borrowing money from them of course with interest then giving a portion of it back to them in foreign aid? Does anyone else find this bizarre cause i can't get my head round it at all there's no reason for it and like our contribution to the EU which is now trying to take all our rebate away from us which Thatcher fought tooth and nail for because otherwise it'd be like our foreign aid policy just throwing money into a black hole and getting absolutly nothing from it. Time's are proving to be very hard whether it's the American sub prime lending where millions defaulted and instead of the companies taking the hit because after all it is their fault then they went on to unethically sell off there unrecoverable debts to banks and companies around the world forcing many to beg their Goverments for a bail out and ultimately the tax payers paying the heaviest price. The banks should've taken the American Route and sued the companies who sold them these worseless debts then maybe we wouldn't be in this situation now. Maybe if the USA was forced to go under by their error and their error only instead of dishonestly trying to spread their bad judgement around the world and i know for sure if another countries business's had done what America has done to the world America would make sure that whole country would go bankrupt causing mega inflation like Zimbarbwe where a can of pop needs to be paid for with about 10 high denomination notes. Maybe if America was forced to go under we wouldn't have half the problems with the middle east which America and Israel cause with often totally illegal actions. I do actually feel bitter that we're all feeling it big time of course apart from the top 1% who pay less of a percentage in tax than someone earning £12,000 pa because of tax avoidance and loop hole's the Government won't close and it's not just the Conservatives who've allowed this to happen, Labour were the previous long standing Government who failed to take action on it too and also lost £9 billion of our money by selling a large percentage of the gold reserves when it was at the lowest price it'd been in decades. If those 2 things didn't happen the UK would be a very different place that it is today. We and the other Countries should've stood up to America's blatant fraud because after all that's what the EU was designed for ie strength in numbers with a far more stronger combined armed force's than America so if we forced them to pay their dues they'd be extremely stupid to make an armed response. Why have we allowed America to do this to us? If Japan or Ukraine did this to the world with dishonesty we wouldn't allow them to get away with it. America need's to face it they are not a super power the EU combined is far stronger which America knows. Maybe they did it on purpose to try to break the EU off leaving only the other to serious powers which are Russia and China?

Moleogod it was carpet right that was the dodgy one that burnt down . Harriss where just an unfortunate neighbour . This particular company has been going as the same company since 1929, shame realy but a sign of the times. Wow notatcreamfields that's one hell of a rant ! But must say correct in so many ways, it's sad to see the way this country has bowed down to the yanks and other country's . Great Britain is losing its greatness :(

Notcreamfields - what you wrote might sound "one hell of a rant" (Daz@snkeyviaOrford)
, but well said !!!

Just bugs the hell out of me, the MPs are totally out of touch which showed when Gordon Brown called the lady a bigot that asked him why he'd let so many Eastern Europeans in when all it's done is drove public service's to breaking point which Gordon Brown borrowed billions for to try to hide the fact that immigration was not beneficial for the UK whatsoever and a large chunk of what they earn goes back to their own country which is money the Government are not making VAT on which the rest of us have to pay. They've also driven the construction business to breaking point because building companies will only pay the low wages Eastern Europeans will work for which isn't enough to bring a family up on. Maybe if MPs didn't need to come from a privileged back ground and educated at Cambridge or Oxford Universities and lived how "us plebs" do as the Conservative chief whip seems to think anyone who earns under £40,000pa they'd know the extensive damage the previous Labour Government has done to the very essence of being English is with extensive no go areas for English people increasing every year then maybe they'd be motivated to force them to integrate. It's more obvious in old pakistani, bangladeshi and sri lanken communities where it's commen with people who've been here for over 20 years and don't speak a word of English. This has been their reason for not being able to get a job and living off benefits instead and up until now the DWP and Council have always paid for translators when they need to renew their benefits. Hopefully David Cameron will keep his promise of if they live here perminantly they will be required to learn English. Those are the only communities with this issue because they've been allowed to get away with it. The new Eastern Europeans that i know went to night school and paid with their own money to learn the language as they were classing England as their new home and now i don't know any that can't hold a detailed conversation in English apart from the one's that have just arrived. It's just common courtsey especially if you're living off benefits having not paid a single penny in UK income tax and national insurence. That was aimed at the Asian Group because the Eastern Europeans have always worked until the recession as the Asian's haven't had any cuts to their life style at all cause they claim every single penny they're entitled to plus more and when found out they claim the forms were lost in translation and rather than the DWP do what they do to English people caught defrauding the system like paying it back and never a custodial sentence the DWP let it go because they don't want to be branded racist. They shouldn't be treated any worse or any better but just the same, forced to learn the language at least if they're living off the state and forced to go on 30 hour per week work experience. You don't need to speak perfect English to stack shelves so why are they not forced into work like the other JSA claiment. The DWP are racially discriminating against people by only sending English people on work placement it just doesn't reach the papers, that's till the DWP does force people who've been here for decades to learn English and put them on work placements because they'll soon complain that being forced to learn English is a breach of human rights and i'm sure multiple totally left wing judges will agree too until the Government realise's the UK is like a tinder box at the moment with people of all race's sick of non english speaking immigrants that have been given a free ride for so long because if you can't speak English how can you get a job in England and it's a slap in the face to every tax payer it's been going on under the radar for so long. Good immigrants learn English and integrate, bad immigrants forming their own communities in Oldham, Bradford, Leeds and Londistan as it's resident's call it just to name a few and refusing to integrate as they'd rather live on benefits because for so long it's been "un PC" to ask them to do anything to mix with the community even changing the word Christmas for winter festival in case it offends them as it's a Christian public holiday yet there's nothing said when muslims are on ramadan, maybe i find that offensive?

Daz@SankeyviaOrford wrote:
Moleogod it was carpet right that was the dodgy one that burnt down . Harriss where just an unfortunate neighbour . This particular company has been going as the same company since 1929, shame realy but a sign of the times. Wow notatcreamfields that's one hell of a rant ! But must say correct in so many ways, it's sad to see the way this country has bowed down to the yanks and other country's . Great Britain is losing its greatness :(

thanks for the clear up i wasn't sure :-)
and (notatcreamfields) i dont even bother reading your Frank Herbert novels any more

notatcreamfields - you should be given a regular column in the midweek. I'd read it religiously instead of just throwing it straight in the recycling bin as I do now!

@notatcreamfields "TL;DR"

as for the store, shame to see another go.

Dare I say it but one of the reasons for the "failure" of such a long established firm may have been what I call the "woolworths" syndrome.....relying on the name but not changing with the market. I've been in that shop in a number of occassion and what they stocked was either (IMHO) outdated or overpriced.

I worked for Andrew Harris in the mid '80's on a YTS scheme...

Couldn't have happened to a nicer fella...