Eddy Shah
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Eddy Shah (also Eddie Shah) is a Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced UK newspaper Today and of the extremely short-lived tabloid The Post, and current owner of the Messenger Group.
He is also the author of several novels: The Lucy Ghosts (1991), Ring of Red Roses (1992), Manchester Blue (1993), and Fallen Angels (1994).
He was the first businessman to confront the power of trade unionism, at his Warrington print works and Manchester news offices, in 1982. As the owner of six local newspapers, he defeated the print unions after national strikes that went on for seven months - despite violent picketing and receiving death threats. He was the first person to invoke Margaret Thatcher's Industrial Laws to bring the unions to the bargaining table. Fleet Street followed three years later by de-unionising.
He now owns and runs golf courses, leisure centres and hotels, including the Wiltshire Golf and Country Club, Wootton Bassett. He is building 44 holiday homes with his wife Jennifer at the Wiltshire[1].
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