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Mike Bannister

The Serious Fraud Office is treating people seriously unfairly

If British industry had its own Mount Rushmore, the carved rock would undoubtedly include the face of Sir Ralph Robins. As, successively, managing director, chief executive and chairman of Rolls-Royce between 1984 and 2003, he transformed the fortunes of a company that had been humbled by receivership and nationalisation in the 1970s. Thirty years ago