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Jump to full article: This is Bristol (UK), 2008-06-20
Intro: Imperial Tobacco has announced that is to close its last factory in Bristol as part of a massive cost cutting programme.
The closure of the company's cigar factory in Winterstoke Road, Ashton, will lead to the loss of 75 jobs and will bring to a close decades of tobacco manufacture in the city.
Just over 30 years ago thousands of staff worked in factories in Bedminster and Hartcliffe but now all the jobs have been moved abroad.
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