MORE than 100 workers who staged an angry sit-in over the sudden closure of a Blackburn building firm were offered new jobs. But they said they were no nearer recovering back pay they claimed was owed by Colby Construction for work on offices at British Aerospace, Warton. The main contractor, Conder Projects, had promised the men new jobs.

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