UK only

Yes, you can unpublish the countries you don't need, unpublish the currencies you don't need, set the main zone as UK, the main currency as GBP, and set the default country in the address_country custom field to UK.

You can look on that page for the tutorials explaining how to display your content:
www.hikashop.com/en/support/documentatio...splay-front-end.html
For your case, you will want to follow the tutorial named "Listing of products with a menu".

Well, if you want to display categories, that's indeed the case
You didn't talk about categories in your previous message but only listing of hand bags, so I assumed you were talking about listing your products directly, without categories.

Sure. You can do that with some CSS.
Go in the configuration, under the tab display and edit the front end CSS.
There, you can disable the display# with:

.hikashop_products_pagination div.limit{ display:none; }

span.hikashop_results_counter{ display:none; }

Yes

By editing the file directly, you will loose your modifications when you update. You should make a copy of your file in the same folder. Call it frontend_custom.css for example. Then, in the configuration select your copy.
For the fact that the display is still there, it should definitely have worked. That's something already other users have done. There are even posts about it on the forum. Maybe you forgot something ?

Maybe you could give us the link to your page so that we could have a look at what you did ?

Actually, I forgot that it was a listing of categories and not product.
The CSS line I gave to hide the "display #" is only for the products listing.

For categories listing it's:

.hikashop_subcategories_pagination div.limit{ display:none; }

In the menu System->Shipping methods, then after clicking on the manual shipping methods plugin, you get a listing of shipping methods. There you can create new shipping methods or edit your existing shipping methods. When doing so, on the right side of the screen, you will get the option "Price" where you can put the amount to charge for that shipping method.