A BED-making workshop that provided employment for more than 200 blind and disabled workers closed for good yesterday despite last-ditch attempts to save it.
Staff at the Edinburgh bed-making BlindCraft factory had been told it would close as part of council cutbacks and campaigners said many of the disabled workers will not find new jobs.
Edinburgh City Council decided in February to shut the Craigmillar factory –which dates back to 1793 – to save £700,000 a year.
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