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Why the UK is on the make again

Last year I was fortunate enough to stumble upon a gem of a business housed in a rather rundown building in the backstreets of Manchester. That business was Cooper & Stollbrand, the last remaining factory from the North’s once thriving rainwear manufacturing industry.

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