Liverpool Is Still a Victim of the 1970s ; Anniversary of Day Unemployment Topped Three Million City Editor Larry Neild Speaks to a Leading Economist Who Says the City has Never Recovered From Mass Closures

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LIVERPOOL is still suffering the impact of the massive factory closures of the 1970s, a leading academic in the city said last night.

Economist Peter Stoney was commenting on the 25th anniversary of the date Britain's unemployment level broke though the 3m barrier for the first time since the hungry 1930s.

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Liverpool Is Still a Victim of the 1970s ; Anniversary of Day Unemployment Topped Three Million City Editor Larry Neild Speaks to a Leading Economist Who Says the City has Never Recovered From Mass Closures

Mr Stoney, a lecturer at the University of Liverpool since the 1970s, witnessed the collapse of Merseyside's industrial heartland as f...

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