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• Pressure mounts to strip Green of knighthood

  09-02-2019 23:39
  Labour chair joins calls following allegations of sexual and racial abusePressure was mounting on Saturday for controversial businessman Sir Philip Green to lose his knighthood following allegations that he had sexually and racially abused his staff.“If the allegations are true, then Philip Green should be stripped of his knighthood,” said Ian Lavery MP, Labour party chair. “The public rightly expect high standards from public figures and they’re not getting it. The honou
  
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• Ocado prays warehouse blaze won’t douse its hopes for a hi-tech future

  09-02-2019 17:00
  The grocer was riding high on a US deal for its robotised logistics system. Then came a fire at its state-of-the-art depotLast Tuesday morning Tim Steiner, the boss of Ocado, was brimming with his usual confidence as he told City investors how its robotic warehouses had the potential to revolutionise grocery shopping and transform the way baggage carousels, car parks and even ports operate.However, as Steiner was delivering his presentation in Goldman Sachs’s London office – where he
  
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• Philip Green accused of racial, physical and sexual abuse

  09-02-2019 00:23
  Businessman faces string of allegations by employees after injunction is lifted
  Philip Green allegedly subjected people working in his business empire to abuse and other inappropriate behaviour that was at times racial, physical and sexual, according to a report.A host of serious allegations were published on Friday evening by the Daily Telegraph after an injunction obtained by the businessman was lifted. Continue reading...
  
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