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<p>-----Original Message-----<br />
From: John Soden &lt;soden.j@gmail.com&gt;<br />
Sent: 07 September 2020 16:56<br />
To: Stephen Nurse &lt;nurse_stephen@hotmail.com&gt;; Nick Curtis &lt;n.curtis123@btinternet.com&gt;; Stephen Phillips &lt;stephen.phillips@templebright.com&gt;<br />
Subject: Rachel</p>

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<p>She had contacted me following an aggressive&nbsp; email sent to her and James at the weekend&nbsp; by a shareholder, Andy Thompson.</p>

<p>She said Andy Thompson has always been aggressive﻿ and she&rsquo;s not surprised.</p>

<p>I said that there had been a vacuum after the notices were sent out by JM because we hadn&rsquo;t sent out our letters to shareholders but we were sending them today. Therefore there may be a lot more of that&nbsp; sort of emails.</p>

<p>She said she had been piggy in the middle in a toxic situation and had therefore kept her head down and was conscious that she had not been as communicative as she could have been in recent weeks- and she that she may well have been wrong. But she needed to take a lead from JM.</p>

<p>However she needed to know where she stood. So she had contacted me and also Shane Gallwey.</p>

<p>&nbsp;She knew we were meeting JM tomorrow. I said we would be seeking his departure earlier than 30 September and an orderly hand-over.</p>

<p>&nbsp;I said I would not be telling JM that we had spoken.</p>

<p>&nbsp;She also knew that he had put in an offer with Mike Smith - she had not met MS (and wondered why - but had been fobbed off by JM).</p>

<p>Regarding her position I said we had had an open mind and she would have noticed that we had not sought her removal as a director - we had noted that she had not been especially helpful in recent weeks but understood that she was in a difficult position.</p>

<p>She is willing to do what we want but she is single with two children and needs to protect herself. I said we were hoping to bring in a new operator and the pub needs would depend on what was required going forward. At the very least I felt that it would be sensible to have an orderly hand-over and we could see how things went after that. She said she would be completely professional and do what was necessary and wanted to be helpful.</p>

<p>I asked her about re-opening.</p>

<p>Crown is re-opening tomorrow. The Hero and Coach within days. Staff have been re-engaged, suppliers have been talked to and instalment plans agreed.</p>

<p>I queried how this could be funded. Cash in Hero is &pound;16k, Coach has &pound;60k, Crown has &pound;25k.</p>

<p>We can consider what we need when we know where we stand with Frank D.</p>

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