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Wrexham, the manufacturing 'powerhouse' is suffering

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Nick - Web Team Nick - Web Team | 14:32 UK time, Friday, 3 July 2009

This week's confirmation that at Acrefair with the loss of 200 jobs, will add yet more people to the growing jobs queue in the region during the credit crunch.

We've been keeping a tally by bookmarking such stories on .
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Just read some of the stories and you'll see just how many jobs has been lost - the list goes on - and on.

Now these latest jobs cuts have prompted to say rising unemployment in north east Wales needs to be "urgently addressed".

He said: "Wrexham has been heavily reliant on manufacturing, more so than almost any area of the UK and the figures are giving rise to concern. Here in north east Wales we've always been referred to as the 'powerhouse' and left to get on with it, but there are now serious issues that need to be addressed urgently."

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