The company has taken a long-term lease on a 70, 000 sq ft (6, 500 sq m) factory in Old Run Road in Hunslet.

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Sainsbury's told the BBC the location at St Peter's Factory, Wells Road, would help keep shoppers in the area.

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Officers discovered an alleged gun factory in sheds at The Briars on Basingstoke Road, Three Mile Cross, near Reading, after the tenants at the property raised the alarm last July.

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The project is expected to provide 110 jobs over the next three years, in addition to the 48 currently employed at the Moneymore Road factory.

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The battery factory that sits along the main road between Potocari and Srebrenica in eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina is quaint and quiet.

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Penso finance director Richard Owen, said purchasing the factory at Woodhams Road would allow it to modify the plant in a way it was not able to do as a tenant.

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