date:Nov 22, 2013
d that chancellor George Osborne was in discussions with financial regulators over what form the inquiry should take.
Group chairman Len Wardle has now resigned after the ailing bank had to be bailed out by hedge funds after getting into financial difficulties.
Wardle will be replaced by Ursula Lidbetter,Co-Op'a deputy chair and chief executive of the Lincolnshire Co-operative Society. Lidbetter will lead the group through a review prompted by the Flowers scandal.
Flowers, dubbed the Crystal