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Swinney visits 'crisis' Inverclyde towns asking for help after 1,500 job losses

During the 1970s and 1980s, the shipbuilding sector in the region experienced a steep decline, culminating in the closure of Tate & Lyle’s last sugar refinery in Greenock in 1997. There was early optimism that the area’s industrial base might be revitalized by technology companies such as IBM. However, the “Silicon Glen” initiative did not…