BURNLEY MP Gordon Birtwistle this week spoke out about the declining number of young engineers, and called for Lancashire firms to take on more apprentices.
Speaking in the House of Commons, he said: “The age profile of a lot of the workforce in the British aerospace industry, particularly in Lancashire, and the engineering industry is getting very high.”
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