The inside story of how the award-winning and highly successful Co-operative Bank almost came to be sold for £110 million 14 years ago is told for the first time in a new book written by the Bank’s former Managing Director, Terry Thomas.


THE Co-operative Group has won the right to a re-trial in its long-running £ 11 million legal wrangle with IT providers ICL. The Group lodged an appeal last February after Judge Richard Seymour QC said in the Technology and Construction Court that the society had no case against ICL - now known as Fujitsu - as it had failed to agree a valid contract in relation to penalty clauses, deadlines and standards of workmanship.