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AROUND 1,600 jobs will be created by Co-op which plans to open 100 new grocery stores in the coming year.
The retailer will invest more than £160 million in the new shops, as well as giving “major makeovers” to a further 150 outlets.
More than 20 new stores will open in London, up to 18 in Scotland, 10 in Wales and others in English cities including York, Plymouth and Bristol.
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The once beating heart of British journalism was undone by technological change, union battles and Murdoch’s 1986 Wapping coup – leaving London the only major capital without a press club, says TIM GOPSILL
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
