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London - In the fight for control of Dobbies Garden Center, retailing giant Tesco may be a Goliath, but billionaire Thomas Hunter is not exactly the storybook David. After all, he is Scotland's richest man, ranked No. 897 on the Forbes 2008 Billionaires list with an estimated fortune of $1.3...
Police are still hunting a convicted killer who has gone on the run from an open prison - and the public have been warned not to tackle him. John Bowden, 51, failed to return to Noranside jail in Angus on Thursday. Police said Bowden, who was last seen in the nearby town of Forfar, was being...
Bag for life scheme South Tyneside shoppers will be given the chance to ditch plastic carriers and bag themselves a more environmentally friendly ‘bag for life’ next week. Wonderful scheme, I’m all for us shoppers re-using a bag for life, we did it years ago and I’m sure we can do it again now....
By Jonathan Birchall in New York Tesco , the UK supermarket group is eyeing a first direct response from a US competitor to the arrival in the US of its Fresh & Easy markets, with the opening this week by Safeway (NYSE:SWY) of a new similarly-sized small grocery store. Von's, Safeway's subsidiary...
Bridging the gap between green aspiration and more ethical action, Get the Point recently launched a fresh green rewards website: http://ecomonkey.co.uk, where UK consumers get green points for buying greener products. Everything at Ecomonkey gets a label to guide consumers using a simple to...
TESCO Stores hypermarket chain has opened its 21st outlet in Mergong, about 5km from Alor Star. Tesco Stores chief executive officer Chris Bush performed the opening ceremony at the outlet’s entrance on Thursday. The ceremony was watched by hundreds of early customers who made a beeline to the...
By Richard Fletcher, Executive Editor The Guardian has offered to publish a "prominent" correction to Tesco in a bid to settle a bitter legal row - but stopped short of the front page apology demanded. Tesco launched libel proceedings against the Guardian and its editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger...
Emphasis on produce from local producers, but critics fear effect on high streets There's fresh asparagus from John Poll, flour from Glebe farm, ale from a microbrewery in Cambridge, and the piece de resistance of the relaunched Waitrose in St Neots : spicy sauces from a couple who grow chillies...
Eamonn McManus and Tony Colquitt, former executives with HSBC and Gillette respectively who are now the chairman and chief executive of St Helens, will take the unusual option of walking to tonight's Super League game against the Catalans Dragons at Knowsley Road. They will lead a march from the...
By Vicki Woods Have your say Read comments Last Saturday, I rang my neighbour the headhunter's wife, and said we were just off to the pub. This being simply a statement of purpose, it's a brilliantly useful method of convivial exchange between longtime neighbours in an English village. Our end...
