Hints and tips:
...swing seats and target voters (hullo “Essex Man”), stay for the hair-raising exploits of boy-racers on the Southend seafront, gangsters, reality TV stars and my only famous forebear, the wizard Cunning Murrell...
...Murrells had continued the work of his predecessor Richard Pennycook in simplifying and stabilising the Co-op, which was badly damaged by scandal and the near-collapse of its banking unit in 2013....
...If anything, Murrell’s production could let go even more, rolling with the music and dance for longer....
...He presided over a radical reshaping of the mutual into a convenience-focused retailer and a smooth transfer of executive responsibility from Richard Pennycook to Steve Murrells....
...Mr Murrells, 53, was promoted after helping Richard Pennycook, his predecessor, rescue the group, which sells everything from coffins to car insurance....
...“Certified organic products are up to 60 per cent higher in antioxidants,” claims Bessie Austin, who co-founded Austin Austin Organic with her father, Richard, last year....
...Steve Murrells had a much calmer first week in charge of the Co-operative Group than his predecessor, Richard Pennycook, who took the top job following a management bust-up in 2014....
...He will be succeeded by Steve Murrells, chief executive of the Co-op’s food business....
...Mr Murrells will not get a pay rise, remaining on £750,000 a year, the same rate as Mr Pennycook after he took a cut. Mr Murrells could triple his pay with bonuses....
...Steve Murrells, the former food boss who became group chief executive in March after Richard Pennycook resigned, said the Co-op’s businesses were all increasing revenue and market share....
...Chief executive Richard Pennycook agreed to an almost 60 per cent pay cut after the results earlier this year....
...Steve Murrells, retail chief executive, who manages the core grocery business and joined in 2012, will assume responsibility for property from Mr Hulme....
...Co-op aims to revive its supermarkets, which Steve Murrells, chief executive of the grocery operation, said last week were “awful”....
...… Toil and trouble The disinterment of Richard III is prompting efforts to rescue the reputations of sundry monarchs, not least Macbeth, 11th-century king of Scotland....
...As John Murrell points out, this will not go down well with the news organisations....
...,” asked Richard Silverstein....
...Conspiracy theories are age-old, but the form they now take in democratic states owes much to the Watergate scandal, which led to President Richard Nixon’s resignation in 1974....
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