Nearly 900 sacked at Total refinery in UK

LONDON (Reuters) - Nearly 900 workers have been sacked at a strike-hit British oil refinery run by France's Total, the BBC reported on Thursday, citing trade union sources.

Some 1,200 contract workers walked off a construction project at the refinery last week in protest at planned redundancies, causing similar walkouts by contractors at some power stations around the country.

The Lindsey refinery processes about 223,000 barrels of crude oil per day, and production had not been affected by the construction workers' walkout.

(Reporting by David Milliken)