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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>Tim Waterstone, former Chair of the [[HMV Media Group]] (he resigned in March 2001), gave more than £5,000 to the Labour Party in 1997 and £12,000 in May 2001.<br />
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He was the founder of the [[Waterstone's]] bookshop chain, which he sold to [[WHSmith]] in 1991 for £47 million. In February 1998 he bought it back, in partnership with the [[EMI]] group, to be part of the HMV Media Group which includes 271 HMV shops, 78 Dillons shops, Waterstone's Daisy & Tom children's shops and the 99 Waterstones shops. [[Alan Giles]], Chief Executive of the HMV Media Group is also a Non-Executive Director of [[Somerfield]].<br />
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He was one of the 58 business leaders who wrote to the Times in May 2001 in support of the Labour Party.</div>David