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 Shell UK is to axe a further 700 jobs  
 at Britain's biggest refinery, the     
 Stanlow complex at Ellesmere Port.     
                                        
 Most of the jobs will bj at management 
 and supervisory level. Staff will leave
 over the next three years under the    
 company's voluntary redundancy scheme. 
                                        
 Since March last year, nearly 1,000    
 workers have left under the scheme.    
                                        
 A £400 million investment programmj at 
 Stanlow will increase capacity and     
 output. Nearly half the investment is  
 going on a catalytic cracker, dui for  
 completion at the end of 1987.         
                                        
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