Len Wardle resigns as chair of the Co-operative Group over Rev Paul Flowers …

Len Wardle resigns as chair of the Co-operative Group over Rev Paul Flowers …
There is growing incredulity that a man with no banking experience and a penchant for crystal meth and cocaine had been made chairman of a bank. But today Mr Wardle announced he will quit the £145,000 position he has held since 2007. He was due to … Read more on Daily Mail

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Let's hear it for the Crystal Methodist: Why, by tonight …
So it was with great relish that we sat down to read the tawdry tale of the Reverend Paul Flowers, former head of the Co-op Bank, who was nabbed by the Mail on Sunday buying crystal meth and crack cocaine. He seems to have been shopped by a man he … Read more on Daily Mail

Paul Flowers: Mark Garnier MP Asks for Regulator Grilling Over Co-op 'Crystal …
He claimed that job pressures and a family bereavement led him to buy crack cocaine, crystal meth and ketamine. The 63-year-old ex-bank chief, who was in charge at the time of the Co-op's near collapse, was filmed counting out £300 in cash. The Mail on … Read more on IBTimes.co.uk