A HARD-HIT community was boosted by the announcement of 134 permanent new jobs at an Accrington-based mail order company.
The extra staff were taken on this month as Express Gifts geared up to operate at capacity following a £20 million investment programme in the last two years, at the Berlin Wall site in Church. The new jobs were to be on a new production line soon to come into service.
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