Eddy Shah
Eddy Shah (also
Eddie Shah) is a
Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced
UK newspaper Today and of the extremely short-lived tabloid
The Post, and current owner of the
Messenger Group.
He is also the author of several novels:
The Lucy Ghosts (
1991),
Ring of Red Roses (
1992),
Manchester Blue (
1993), and
Fallen Angels (
1994).
He was the first businessman to confront the power of trade unionism, at his Warrington print works and Manchester news offices, in 1982. As the owner of six local newspapers, he defeated the print unions after national strikes that went on for seven months - despite violent picketing and receiving death threats. He was the first person to invoke
Margaret Thatcher's Industrial Laws to bring the unions to the bargaining table.
Fleet Street followed three years later by de-unionising.
He now owns and runs golf courses, leisure centres and hotels, including the Wiltshire Golf and Country Club,
Wootton Bassett.
