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...In a symbol of encroaching globalisation, Mike Ashley parked the international headquarters of his Sports Direct retail outlet directly over the old mine shafts in 2005....
...If Mr Ashley has achieved anything by opening up to “selected media” this week, he may have diluted the extreme view that he is a “monster of a man”, as Labour MP Dennis Skinner called him recently....
...Dennis Skinner, a Labour MP with a Sports Direct warehouse in his constituency, said of Mr Ashley: “That man has not made £6bn because he’s a considerate employer....
...Founder Mike Ashley wants to fly them by helicopter to his Derbyshire warehouse for a tour in return for testifying. This is what delegates would hear through their headphones*: “Mike Ashley here....
...But the threat of closure has transformed the trade: all week it has been packed inside what Frank Skinner, the comedian, called “the goulash archipelago”....
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