Published Thursday 15 October 2015 at 15:18
Great British Sewing Bee judge Patrick Grant has announced expansion plans after buying historic clothing company Cookson and Clegg on Shadsworth Business Park.
The Savile Row designer has already created 30 jobs and plans to double the number of machinists at the factory. He is also offering apprenticeships to young people from the area.
Read his interviews in the Lancashire Telegraph here:
- TV star set to revive Blackburn’s textile industry after saving historic clothing company
- Patrick Grant: Blackburn is cool and I could even see myself living in the town centre
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