The most popular bankruptcy route, chosen by more than 80% of the firms that filed for court protection last year, leaves the existing management untouched.

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On some estimates, about 80% of the original route is still driveable, even though it is now fragmented into frontage roads, small-town streets, rural highways and isolated patches of asphalt.

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The firm's managing director, Dennis Meagher, said 80% of staff lived in north Warwickshire which was not included on the torch route next year.

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