EIGHT North West billionaires are listed in the 2013 Sunday Time Rich List, published on April 21.
The annual list, which profiles the 1,000 richest people and families in the UK, also includes Britain’s first billionaire under the age of 30.
Robin Arora, 28, shares a £1.1bn fortune with his brothers Simon, 43, and Bobby, 41.
The brothers, who live in Manchester, run the Liverpool-based cut price store chain B&M Bargains. They have more than doubled their combined fortune in a year, from £487m to £1.1bn, a rise of 126 per cent.
Topping the North West billionaires list is the Duke of Westminster whose property fortune has risen to £7.8bn, up £450m on last year.
The Duke Of Westminster £7.8bn
See below for the full list of 20 richest in the North West of England.
| Regional rank 2013 | Regional rank 2012 | Name | Source of wealth | National rank | 2013 wealth | 2012 wealth |
| 1 | 1 | The Duke of Westminster | Property | 8 | £7,800m | £7,350m |
| 2 | 2 | John Whittaker | Property | 31= | £2,300m | £2,175m |
| 3 | 5 | Peter Hargreaves | Finance | 47 | £1,523m | £830m |
| 4 | 8 | Tom Morris and family | Discount stores | 62 | £1,220m | £620m |
| 5 | 4 | Lord Grantchester and the Moores family | Retailing and football pools | 64= | £1,220m | £1,200m |
| 6 | 13 | Simon, Bobby and Robin Arora | Discount stores | 73= | £1,100m | £487m |
| 7 | 3 | Robin Sheppard and family | Scrap metal | 80 | $1,040m | £1,235m |
| 8 | 9 | John Hargreaves and family | Fashion | 84= | £1,000m | £600m |
| 9 | 7 | Fred and Peter Done | Gambling | 102= | £850m | £700m |
| 10 | 6 | Peter Jones and Family | Property | 124 | £707m | £720m |
| 11 | 10 | Trevor Hemmings | Property | 148 | £610m | £575m |
| 12 | 14 | Michael Oliver and family | Engineering | 169 | £517m | £344m |
| 13= | 11 | The Walker family | Aviation, steel and property | 173= | £500m | £510m |
| 13= | 12 | The Warburton family | Baking | 173= | £500m | £500m |
| 15 | 16 | Lord Alliance and family | Mail order and textiles | 224= | £400m | £292m |
| 16 | 17 | Sir Lindsey Owen-Jones | Beauty products | 238= | £375m | £280m |
| 17= | 19 | Geoffrey Halstead and family | Flooring | 246= | £350m | £270m |
| 17= | 15 | Henry Moser and family | Finance | 246= | £350m | £298m |
| 19 | 23 | Michael Oglesby and family | Property | 255= | £340m | £200m |
| 20 | 18 | Sit John Zochonis and family | Soap | 261= | £330m | £274m |
