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Could freeports help ‘level up’ the north?

Could freeports help ‘level up’ the north?

14 March 2020

9:00 AM

14 March 2020

9:00 AM

It’s hard to think of a place more deserving of a post-Brexit boom than Grimsby. In the 1950s it had the largest trawler fleet in the world, brought in hundreds of tonnes of cod a day, and you could cross its harbour by walking over ships in the dock. But the Cod Wars were lost and the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy began to bite.

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