Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
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autumn, winter and summer – but 52 seasons, every week they are replenishing the store with new range.
“And the cost of the merchandise is such it’s disposable. Many years ago, a young lady would buy herself a rather expensive dress in relation to her salary.
“Now she can go and buy a dress for the same price as a gin and tonic and throw it away.” This is not, it should be said, entirely on-message with the Mirror’s High Street fightback campaign, which is promoting positive ways of reviving our towns and cities.
Today, though, our most famous businessman wants to mainly talk about cakes. In particular, he wants to chat about the Ridiculously Rich cake brand created by Apprentice winner Alana Spencer, which may or may not have been named in honour of the man who hired her.
Tonight, the 14th series of The Apprentice starts on BBC1 and if the super-keen, super-confident whizkids class of 2018 want to know what awaits, they should probably have a chat with Alana.
At least that way, the 2016 champion of the hit BBC1 reality show would get a word in the conversat Alana wants to tell Mirror about her n Grab ‘n’ Go range – w includes, appropria enough, millionai shortbread, and which plans to sell through “cakepreneurs But this is proving something challenge, as every time she start speak Lord Sugar interrupts her. Th