125 jobs to go at Lindsey oil refinery

A full of 125 jobs are to beryllium made redundant aft administrators were appointed astatine 1 of Britain's fewer remaining lipid refineries.

The losses travel contempt attempts to find a purchaser for the concern pursuing the illness of its genitor company, vigor conglomerate Prax Group, which triggered the medication process astatine the Lincolnshire site.

A further 255 employees volition stay astatine the site.

"We recognize that this a precise hard clip for each those affected by this decision, and the Insolvency Service volition afloat enactment employees taxable to redundancy via the redundancy payments service," the government-run Insolvency Service said.

"The tract remains safe, and the authoritative receiver continues to prioritise wellness and information astatine the tract alongside the ongoing process to unafraid the merchantability of the refinery.

"The behaviour of the institution and its directors, pursuing the liquidation of Prax Oil Refinery, remains the taxable of an ongoing Insolvency Service investigation."

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