SHOCKED Co-operative members were left in tears after the country’s oldest society was officially wound up.
Members of the 153-year-old Highburton Co-operative Society were summoned to a vote on the future of the empty shop onTuesday.
It has been lying empty ever since a lack of trade forced it to close in February last year, but a campaign to re-open it had been building up steam recently.
A small group of members said they had appealed for more time to save it, but the move was dismissed and the vote to disband the society was passed by 12 votes to three with one abstention.
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