Jobs set to go at Leyland Trucks

More than 1,200 people are employed at the site

More than 100 jobs are to go at the Leyland Trucks site in Lancashire, it has been announced.

The site in Farington, near Leyland, employs more than 1,200 people and produces vehicles delivered to Australia, Europe, and North America.

A spokesman for the firm said 24 office workers were set to go by the end of the year.

Bosses are in negotiations with unions about the compulsory redundancies of a further 92 shop floor posts.

These cuts are in addition to 145 temporary agency workers who were laid off at the site last week.

A spokesman for the company blamed the economic downturn.

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