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Row over failed Hall's bid escalates

A WAR of words between the owners of Hall's of Broxburn and the businessman who made a failed bid to buy the closure-threatened meat processing plant escalated with a further bitter exchange.

Steve Green, of Graf Mortgage Corporation, said Dutch owners Vion had not taken his offer to buy the West Lothian factory – due to close in February with the loss of 1700 jobs – seriously, and the firm said the bid was inviable.

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