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Company director apologises after battery recycling plant fire

Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes

Caitlin Hutchison

10th Apr 2024

The battery recycling plant – which went on fire in Kilwinning in Ayrshire on Monday – is still alight– and the director of the company has now apologised to locals.

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