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Article: Shy Cecil's secret of success - go home to lunch; The JO IND INTERVIEW.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1998
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He sold his business two years ago for around pounds 90 million. He has flown back from Barbados on Concorde to watch his rugby club play. Now the Worcester tycoon is handing out cash to set up a children's hospice in his home city.
You'd expect Cecil Duckworth to be a bit flash wouldn't you? A bit on the pot-bellied Rolex-watch side with the swag of the nouveau riche who can afford a yacht or two?
I wait in the Acorns Children's Hospice in Selly Oak, Birmingham for the 60-year-old tycoon to enter.
The businessman, who was once a working class lad ...