E Scarth & Sons, one of the oldest building firms in Tynedale, is set to close with the loss of 12 jobs in and around the Haltwhistle area. This is a company which has been around since 1973 and became a prominent part of the Haltwhistle economy offering jobs to many people over the years. The closure of the business seems to have been prompted by a failure to win a number of recent public sector housing maintenance contracts which came up for grabs.
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