Focus DIY Focus DIY Focus DIY was a privately owned chain of DIY stores in the United Kingdom. It served the consumer DIY market sector, and most stores had some form of garden centre. At its peak in 2002, it was the second largest DIY retailer in the United Kingdom, although by 2011, it was the fourth. The main competitors were B&Q, Homebase and Wickes. The company operated 178 stores in the United Kingdom with 3,000 employees, but had been running losses every year since 2007. In the year up to 2011, the company had a loss of £25 million. On 4
Anthony Quayle Anthony Quayle Sir John Anthony Quayle, (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was an English actor and theatre director. He was nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe for his supporting role as Thomas Wolsey in the 1969 film "Anne of the Thousand Days", and played important roles in such major studio productions as "The Guns of Navarone" (1961), "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962), "The Fall of the Roman Empire" (1964), "Operation Crossbow" (1965), "QB VII" (1974), and "The Eagle Has Landed" (1976). Quayle was knighted in 1985. Quayle was born in Ainsdale, Southport, Lancashire, to a Manx family.