AWARD winning textile firm Enfield Manufacturing Company was set to lose 40 workers, one-third of its staff at Britannia Mill, Blackburn.
Management blamed cheap imports of linen from Yugoslavia and the strength of the pound against the dollar for the redundancies.
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