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A row over land values is set to scupper a masterplan that would see more than 800 new homes and the long-awaited relief road for Axminster built. The Axminster North East Urban Extension masterplan ...

Councillors have welcomed the ‘great news for Axminster’ that the town’s famous carpet company has been saved and will now be owned by its workers. The company collapsed in February 2020 with the loss ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The consortium that has bought one of the UK’s oldest carpet manufacturers out of administration hopes to ...

Manufacture Of Axminster Woollen Carpets...Employees inspect a length of finished carpet at Axminster Carpets Ltd's factory in Axminster, U.K., on Tuesday, July 12, 2011. The price of wool has surged ...