Mark Group enters administration as government is blamed for latest green job losses

James S Murray
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Administrators for energy efficiency specialist announces over 900 job losses

The fall-out from the government's controversial scrapping of a raft of green policies escalated yesterday, as leading energy efficiency and solar firm Mark Group announced it has entered administration,...

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