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Brewery plan throws lifeline to staff facing the axe at Diageo site

The team behind the recent rescue of an award-winning Scots brewery has begun moves to secure part of the doomed Johnnie Walker plant in Ayrshire.

The move would secure dozens of jobs and see a range of beers and a new adult-orientated soft drinks line bottled within a section of the Kilmarnock site, or on land previously promised to Johnnie Walker’s owners Diageo by the local authority.