Some local companies were doing well out of some EU funding twenty years ago. Two local companies were K Hughes and Unimush - each getting a bit of the EU funding pie back then.
Bid flu was doing the rounds back then too. The picker who turned to prose also was highlighted that month - Laima Muktupavela, who wrote her first book “The Mushroom Covenant”.
There was also a chill wind blowing through the sector that year, with a new mantra heard issuing in the winds - “It’s all over.”
