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Two of its founders previously ran a real chocolate business and teamed up with a food scientist to form their new venture.

A regeneration plan drawn up more than a decade ago proposed total demolition and rebuilding but ran into the buffers when some owners mounted a successful legal challenge.

After being shot by police, the 51-year-old ran back into her house, where she stayed for approximately half an hour, before coming back outside with her babysitter and surrendering to police.

But his career change was also prompted by his 1994 conviction for caning children at the private school he ran with his then wife in Newbiggin-by-the-Sea in Northumberland.

The victim then chased the suspected shoplifters out of the store into the parking lot, where they hit him in the head and ran him over, the station alleged.