Factory revival brings hope to Cumbria town

It was a familiar story: a small town, a big factory, overseas owners and job cuts, another tear in the social fabric of an English community. Except that in Kendal, on the edge of the Lake District, the ending has been rewritten. Andrew Bounds, the FT's north of England correspondent, tells the story. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.