A historic south‑Wales shellfish processor has suspended output and made eight workers redundant after a sharp fall in cockle landings forced its Burry Port plant to mothball production. Parsons Pickles, operating from the Ashburnham Works site since 1948, halted activity in August, its parent company Lenger UK saying the season ranks among the most challenging in living memory. Cockles account for roughly 60 per cent of the firm’s business, lea…
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