Article: GOOD TIMES BAD TIMES PLYMOUTH RETAILER UNITY MACLEAN HAS KEEN INSIGHTS ON LED ZEPPELIN. AFTER ALL, SHE WAS ONCE ITS PUBLICIST.

PLYMOUTH - Unity MacLean leans against the counter of her Plymouth shop and with a plush Oxford accent chats about drugs and decadence as if she is recounting a day at the office.

But at her former place of employment, a productive week was one that ended in chaos before calamity, and the bottom line became a bottomless supply of cocaine. "When I look back at it, I was in a very dangerous situation," she says. "It was quite nasty at the end."

Today, MacLean deals in such Anglo essentials as Yorkshire pudding, Cornish pasties, and Walkers potato crisps at British Imports, which she opened 21 years ago.

Some regular customers swear that the Court Street store's stock of Cadbury chocolates is ...

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