Maybe it isn't news, but it is to me, to see that Maplin are in business albeit in a much more modest way.
Perhaps they'll make a go of it now that they no longer try to stock thousands of low value low turnover items such as resistors, caps, and other bits and bobs which accounted for much of their inventory but contributed little to their turnover. By trying to stock all the shops as well as their warehouse, they couldn't carry low value low turnover items in large quantities in shop, so the likes of us were forever bleating that we wanted five capacitors and they'd only got two in the shop.
Might be worth a look, if only out of curiosity.
I don't think they've got anything that isn't on offer elsewhere, but they have such things as soldering stations, a few kits and bits, but of course nothing on the scale of yesteryear.
https://www.maplin.co.uk/about
https://www.maplin.co.uk/maker-stem
For info really - not to resurrect the interminable debates that rumbled round like summer thunder when Maplin finally hit the buffers.
For old time's sake I wish them well.