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Kevin Ronald Leech (born August 1943) is a British entrepreneur, whose family trust interests include Land's End and the Snowdon Mountain Railway. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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  1. Simon Goodley. "Elusive tycoon Kevin Leech and the North Korean mining rights | Business". The Guardian . Retrieved 2016-04-11.
  2. Conal Walsh. "The fall and rise of Kevin Leech | Business". The Guardian . Retrieved 2016-04-11.
  3. "The bust billionaire Kevin Leech was once the richest man in Jersey, but the dotcom collapse has felled him. Richard Fletcher describes the heady flight into desastre". The Daily Telegraph . 2002-10-13. Retrieved 2016-04-11.
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