Twenty years ago, my grandfather John Durkin, emigrated aged 90 from Dawros, Sligo to join our family in Manchester. A vivid childhood memory I carry is that he cried the day the last cow was sold ...
It’s not just the discounters that are thriving in these challenging times. Sales at the Co-operative Group rose 14% to £10.2bn in its latest financial year (to 5 January), it revealed earlier this ...
The Co-operative Group is going back to the future, and its chosen destination is 1968, when Mrs Robinson was in the charts and the average house price in Britain was £4,000. Fast forward to this week ...