The village of Tutbury, in Staffordshire, has been a centre of glass manufacturing since 1472. But spiralling fuel costs have now forced the last remaining factory in the village to close. On the other side of the River Dove, in the Derbyshire village of Hatton, Nestle has just announced 300 new jobs as part of an expansion to its coffee plant. It represents an industry that is thriving but, in what seems to be a tale of two villages, a mile down the road, another has died. "It's another British manufacturing industry that's gone down the pan," said Darron Shaw, MD at Georgian Crystal. "I started out here as a sweeper-upper and I finished as managing director. The factory's furnaces were switched off a few weeks ago and the factory shop is set to shut this weekend. The company was formed in the 1980s by glassworkers who had been made redundant from another factory.
