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Blow to Paisley as major firm axes 230 jobs

More than two-thirds of the workers at a Scottish town’s ­biggest private employer are being made redundant in a cost-cutting measure.

BASF, the German chemicals company, has confirmed that there will be 232 redundancies at its Ciba plant in Paisley, which manufactures synthetic dyes for paints and plastics.