New £310m plant hailed as positive ‘perfect storm’ for port area with one of Britain’s highest unemployment rates
A new £310m factory in Hull that makes wind turbine blades has been hailed by ministers as proof that manufacturing has a “glittering” future in the UK.
The first batch of 75-metre blades have emerged from the plant, part of a vast “green port” built by Siemens and partners at docks that used to export Yorkshire coal.
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