UK – United Milk’s receivers, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), have today issued a statement saying they will keep the Westbury plant open for another week as it attempts to agree a sale.

Derek Howell, the joint administrative receiver, said: “Negotiations need to continue into next week regarding the future of the plant at Westbury. In that time we will be concentrating on a new proposal that was tabled in the last 24 hours, during our discussions with the milk co-operatives.” The co-operatives, Dairy Farmers of Britain, Milk Link and First Milk, have struggled to reach an agreement on the value of the plant with PWC. It is thought that earlier this week the co-operatives offered the company