MORE than 37 per cent of company directors in the North West have been involved with at least one company that has failed.

And 13 per cent of those are classes as 'serial failures' with multiple company collapses behind them - the highest rate of the UK.

Directors in the North West are also the poorest at paying their debts with 6.4 per cent having county court judgements against them according to analysis carried out by the CCN Group.

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