North & South

SHARP THINKING

ONE OF Peter McCormick’s earliest memories is being at home with his mum, dad and sister boxing up darts. “It’s just what we did as a family,” he says.

In 1970, his father John, an accountant with a vision, had spotted a gap in the market and set

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