700 Cheshire jobs axed as AstraZeneca moves south

Posted on 19 Mar 2013

In a bid to get easier access to “scientific workforce and institutions”, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is to invest £330m in a global HQ and new drugs centre in Cambridge.

The decision will result in 700 redundancies in Cheshire. The company’s Alderley Park facility will cease operating, in a move that, the unions said, will create a skills crisis in north-west England. Linda McCulloch, Unite national officer, commented: “After 40 years of success and hundreds of millions of pounds of investment, we are at a…

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