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Planning permission for GSK factory in Ulverston

The pharmaceutical giant now has outline planning permission Credit: Lewis Whyld/PA Wire/Press Association Images

GlaxoSmithKline has been given outline planning permission to build a new bio-pharmaceutical plant at Ulverston.

The company says 700 jobs will be created during the construction of the plant.

It would be the company's first new factory in the UK for more than 40 years.