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Allison Kirkby, chief executive of BT, said the tax changes, which will cost the firm £100m, will mean it speeds up job cuts it was already planning.

Tom Kirkby, 76, agrees there is "a lot of disillusionment" in the town, with many people seeing wave after wave of job cuts over recent decades.

The four-part series co-written and starring actor Stephen Graham, from Kirkby, Merseyside, follows a family whose lives are blown apart when their teenage son is arrested for killing a female classmate.

Conveyor belts then take thousands of tons of material a day to a factory in Kirkby Thore, operated by British Gypsum.

The account used material that echoed anti-immigrant protests last year in nearby Kirkby, suggesting a local organiser.