were discount retailers - such as Poundland. By January 2012, it was reported that there were still 105 empty former Woolworths stores, and a further 68 had been demolished. Alworths According to press reports on 17 February 2011, Tony Page and Gareth Thomas were planning to open a chain of shops adopting the Woolworths format, but under a different name. A store opened under the Alworths name on 5 November 2009 in Didcot, on the site of a former Woolworths store, without the involvement of Page or Thomas. By January 2011, 18 stores had been opened, although in April the company also entered administration and closed. Wellworths The Woolworths store in Dorchester, Dorset was reopened as an independent business named Wellworths by the store manager Claire Robertson. The store was officially opened by BBC Radio 2 DJ Chris Evans on 11 March 2011. It was later renamed Wellchester. Wellchester ceased trading in August 2014, after Robertson left to set up her own retail consultancy business. Woolworths.co.uk The Woolworths brand and domain was bought by Shop Direct Group, owned by Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, on 2 February 2009. The company announced it would relaunch Woolworths as an online retail store. The website was launched on 26 June 2009. It was entirely independent of the former Woolworths Group. It has been closed since June 2015. On 13 October 2015, the company finally dissolved and the website went defunct. In April 2017, multiple news sources reported that Woolworths may possibly be re-opening, nearly nine years since it closed, after former director Tony Page confirmed interest in acquiring the Woolworths name from Shop Direct. As of Wed 22nd Jun 2022, the domain goes to a holding page for United Domains. Incidents Disasters New Cross, London Many branches of Woolworths suffered severe bomb damage and even destruction during the Luftwaffe attacks in the early part of the Second World War. However it was towards the end of the war that the largest civilian loss of life due to direct enemy fire in Britain during the conflict occurred when, at lunchtime on 25 November 1944, a German V-2 rocket fell on a packed Woolworths store in New Cross Road, killing 168 people (including 15 children), injuring 122 others and razing the building to the ground. The neighbouring London Co-operative Society store was also demolished in the attack. The store was especially busy as news