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Ferguson Marine employs about 300 workers and apprentices in an area which has high levels of deprivation.

Yet it's those workers and apprentices who now face an uncertain future.

Matt Gray, who is Meadowhall's head of property services, started out as an eager electrical apprentice at the age of 17.

"We need you to get qualified and get more flats and houses up," she told two bricklaying apprentices, while not entirely convincing with her own trowel technique.

Most designers learn their trade as apprentices or at fashion school - but Armani's education took place on the shop floor.