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Workers ‘devastated’ as 186 KP Snacks jobs face axe

By Rod Addy

KP Snacks’s plans to close factories at Consett in County Durham and Corby in Northamptonshire, threatening up to 186 jobs, have ‘devastated’ longstanding workers there, according to trades union GMB.

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