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Barbara Oaff. "Wage slaves: Ann Summers party organisers | Money | The Guardian". Money.guardian.co.uk . Retrieved 20 January 2016.The first Ann Summers shop was opened in 1970 in Marble Arch, London, from which it grew to six shops. Michael Vaughan, Beate Uhse (30 October 2002). "Sex war threat haunts UK High Streets". BBC News . Retrieved 19 May 2010. Ann Summers has 'offensive' Halloween advert banned | Metro News". Metro.co.uk. 22 October 2010 . Retrieved 20 January 2016. Additionally, Ann Summers in Perth, Scotland, was forced to close after the local people complained about the store (mostly from parents embarrassed by questions raised by their children), which also led to other problems with the store. [18] Perth was originally the only UK town where an Ann Summers store failed to take off. [19] However, in May 2007 the Middleton Grange, Hartlepool store which opened in November 2005 was closed after less than two years of trading due to poor sales. [20] In 2010, Ann Summers' Halloween advertisement was banned by the Radio Advertising Clearance Centre, which decided the advertisement used "fairly overt sexual references in terms of sound effects." [26]
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