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I guess he may have done, as he put up the money to buy the lease. But it was his brother Christopher who ran it. (According to the book anyway - I don't know either of them). And just to correct something from my earlier post, Simon didn't have to bail him out when he was facing ruin after...

That was his brother, Simon. In the book he explains how his brother loaned him the money to buy the lease for the Diner in the first place after the bank refused, then loaned him more money after he'd spent the funds he'd set aside for the VAT bill on advertsing and making a float for the...

I've just (re)read 'Maximum Diner - making it big in Uckfield' by Christopher Nye. Having grown up in Uckfield myself, the descriptions of the town and some of the more unsavoury customers produced some genuine laugh out loud moments. But what somehow passed me by on first reading the book...