The dairy plant site is actually owned by a co-operative of local farmers.

BBC: Forty-five jobs are to be lost at a north Devon dairy plant.

The decision to close the Dairy Crest plant in Fenstanton resulted in all 248 employees being made redundant.

BBC: Fenstanton dairy ceases production after 86 years

Guernsey is importing milk from Jersey after machinery broke down at the dairy's main processing plant.

BBC: Guernsey imports milk from Jersey after dairy breakdown

Every 24 to 48 hours, insulated trucks that hold up to 5, 300 gallons transport milk from dairy farms to the processing plant.

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But Mr Jones has said he intends to plant trees to screen the dairy.

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Separately, rival dairy firm Dairy Crest is to shut down a processing plant in Birmingham and three distribution depots in Oxfordshire.

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His boyhood had been spent in and out of his father's ice-cream plant, and in 1935 he started such a plant himself, the Wilber Farms Dairy in Buffalo.

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Owners Saputo confirmed the company is in negotiations with Dairy Partners of Wales for the sale of the plant.

BBC: Saputo

More than 200 dairy farmers have taken part in a protest outside a milk processing plant and the Morrisons distribution centre in Somerset.

BBC: Milk protest: Dairy farmers blockade two Somerset sites

The taskforce said they hoped the Unigate plant in Haverfordwest - which is now also owned by Dairy Crest - would be persuaded to expand, and employ more of those facing redundancy at Carmarthen.

BBC: Mothballed dairy will be sold

Since at least 2005, the company has been operating a plant in the industrial town of Baddi that produces the cocoa-based drink Bournvita and Cadbury Dairy Milk, a brand of milk chocolate.

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