Great item I was lucky enough to buy one of these from Argos a short while ago for £4.75. Great addition to the BBQ setup, easy to use and keeps the mess down. IMO still worth the B&Q price of £9:00.

The Peterborough store had the kit version of these, chimney starter, 2kg of charcoal and fire lighters for £14. None of the £9 ones though.

Any idea how much the Starter kits are ?

It's far easier & cheaper to light these with scrunched up newspaper than to use firelighters, BUT it gets VERY smoky for around 10 mins, best to light it & close all nearby Windows & remove any washing on the line.

What's the normal price of these?
Suggests £12 odd

Having looked at the photo my cheap non-branded one is easiwr to use as I can more easily put small sticks through the bigger holes that it has at the bottom. So far my cheap one has lasted over 3 years.

Have to admit the Webber one looks better though...

heat! you need one of these if you bbq with charcoal or briquettes!

weber ones are more robust than most. I have the Homebase one also, but it's not going to last and has an inferior false bottom. Beauty with this one is that you can turn it upside down and use it for a small batch of coal

Exactly, that is the way to fire it up, use a small amount of charcoal first, light that with a couple of firefighters and
then keep adding to it, limits the amount of smoke.