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Chick-fil-A quickly moves to close first UK restaurant

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Chick-fil-A announced plans to shutter a restaurant in the United Kingdom about 10 days after it opened.

The Reading restaurant immediately faced protests over the fast-food company's donations to anti-LGBTQ groups.

A spokesperson for The Oracle shopping center said "the right thing to do" was to not extend the restaurant's lease beyond a "six-month pilot period".

The protests followed Chick-fil-A's donations to Fellowship of Christian Athletes, the Paul Anderson Youth Home and the Salvation Army.

Read more from BBC News.

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