PEMBROKE :
John Ewart, 70, the hunt-loving chairman of Carlco, has served the Sheffield metal-bashing company for 20 years.
But when it came to announcing the closure of a troubled wire factory in Belgium, which would mean the loss of local jobs, he proved quite unable to name the town in which it was based . Mr Ewart, your factory is in Ghent.
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