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Brothers bakers, mixed dough and formed loaves as usual last night getting ready to bake the 30,000 loaves of French bread that Lara Barro has turned out five times a week for many years. It was late in the ship before everyone knew that this would be the

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last time the company is bankrupt, forced to the wall by a $2 million damage award to a six year old boy injured by a bakery truck in a street accident. Lara Boru's insurance policy had a $1,250,000 limit. This morning, the 70 drivers were getting ready to

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start their delivery routes for the final time. Many of them were bitter. One such was John Leha, a lab employee since 1941. Feel really realistic that a very crying shame. I don't believe it was necessary. I would hope that the pos would have some compassion with

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the men in this organization. What do you mean? I believe that a settlement could have been made. They tried hard enough. What are you going to do now? What am I going to do? I don't believe I have any problems. I've been in this industry long

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enough and I have job offers from three places. So I don't have any problems as far as I'm, but I'm concerned about the rest of the men here. Brews, board chairman Harold Paul made the sad announcement. We decided to do it just the way we've done

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it to go out gracefully so that uh the name Lara would not be heard. I feel very sorry to have to do it that way. But I believe that the name Laro was synonymous with French bread throughout the world as a matter of fact. And rather

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than let people come in the product ruin the name. I feel the best thing to do was to cut it off. Retail. Customers also had heard the bad news. They thronged the little shop buying up the very last of the crisp brown Lara Los. I can't

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believe that somebody else is going to take this over and keep it going. Yeah. The city. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's no other bread like it. No other sour dough is the same. Even as the delivery trucks rolled plans were being made to sell the bakery for

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scrap. The company says it's open to buy offers, but so far no one has offered Jack Bates. Channel four news.