The Macclesfield outlet "is a very successful store," says Jim Hodkinson, chief executive of B&Q PLC, Britain's biggest home-improvement chain.
Police were hunting vigilantes who handcuffed a suspected thief naked to a lamp-post after accusing him of breaking into cars on a Macclesfield, Cheshire, housing estate.
Mr Nicholas Winterton, MP for Macclesfield, said: 'I shall in no circumstances support it.
Government whips were anxious to end the tenure of the troublesome Mr Nicholas Winterton, Conservative MP for Macclesfield, as chairman of the health committee.
Downing Street yesterday named The Venerable John Gaisford, archdeacon of Macclesfield, and The Venerable John Richards, archdeacon of Exeter, to minister to Anglican dioceses opposed to the ordination of women.