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THE Co-operative Group is launching a free legal services helpline for over two million members as it moves to take advantage of the liberalisation of the UK legal market. The helpline - 0845 0901456 * - is being established for Group members, who include food shoppers, bank customers, insurance policy holders and people who use its travel businesses. Earlier this year, the Group announced the launch of Co-operative Legal Services, in advance of the Government's Legal Services Bill, ...

RADICAL plans to establish a 20,000-home eco town on land owned by the Co-operative Group in rural Leicestershire are being opposed by a local Tory MP and county councillors. Co-operative Estates, working in conjunction with regeneration agency English Partnerships, has put forward proposals to create a new kind of sustainable community to help meet the country's future housing needs.

FORMER Ipswich & Norwich and Heart of England Chief Executive Richard Samson now heads East of England Society following the retirement of Chris Blanchett. Mr Samson, who has been Chief Executive Designate of East of England since the society was formed as a result of last year's merger between Ipswich & Norwich and Colchester & Essex co-ops, has been closely involved in the integration process of the new society and the re-branding of its diverse business activities.