THE Co-operative's behaviour is having a negative effect on the Forest of Dean, the group's new chief executive has been told.

In a letter to Richard Pennycook the interim chief of the Co-op group, the leader of The Forest of Dean District Council Coun Patrick Molyneux pointed out that the group's continued legal action over a new supermarket in Cinderford is not only harmful to the town but potentially damaging to the store's own future.

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