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Yes, full closure. No more of the large Vivaro style vans made in Luton. Ellesmere Port produces the smaller car style vans. .

Indeed, not only a brutal reduction in capacity but over time a reduction in private car ownership, since new i.c. cars will be banned and we won't see low price EVs in our market. Our governments prefer to use harsh tariffs to limit their entry, plus I'm sure to limit ownership by pricing out...

Even wider spread than that, the motor industry internationally is very troubled. That is what Dutch group Stellantis is about, gathering failing elements** from the USA and Europe in an attempt to save them by centralisation. ** Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, Peugeot, Citroen, DS, Fiat and Maserati. .

Now Vauxhall, see this link .

Another BREXIT triumph, Vauxhall's Luton factory to close with all jobs there lost. 119 years of car, and latterly van production there, now ended. The very low level of e-van production going to their Ellesmere Port plant in Cheshire, itself much diminished, all i.c. van production now...

First the original Covent garden fruit and veg market location. Then they closed Smithfield, our long established quality meat market. Now they are back attacking our traditional quality food sources again, this time closing Billingsgate, our source for good fresh fish during four centuries...

Yes, containing a spam website link. N.B. Crossed with Peter's post. .

Water from the River Thames goes through the Beckton sewage works and back to taps seven times before it finally escapes to the sea. I'm lucky being in the outer fringes with Downs Water, but still awful being so hard after filtering though miles of solid chalk. I envy you your soft stream...

They've all been replaced round here with MDPE, medium density polyethylene pipe, blue in colour. .

I don't, sod paying for and carrying heavy bottles of water from a supermarket. My drinking water first falls on the North Downs as rain. It then drains gradually down across and through solid chalk for at least five miles, ending up only 100feet above sea level. There it's at the Addington...

I did watch the Angela Merkel interview last night, liked the way she stressed the importance of compromise. If only Zelensky and Putin had listened more carefully to her. .

Was it this one: The chicken you are eating could have been injected with beef or pork protein. That is the claim that will be made by BBC One's Panorama programme on Thursday after a six month investigation into the chicken processing industry in Holland. Tests carried out for the programme...

That is completely untrue, you are doing what the Americans do, invent news. Zelensky did not offer to never join NATO before the war started, or make other concessions. Instead he maintained his defiance to the last in his speeches. Shortly after the war started, the Russian attack nearing...

Fair's fair, if Ireland is deporting EU illegals to the UK, we should start deporting our boat arrivals of EU illegals to Ireland in the EU? .

All "What if", supposition with no evidence, There is evidence that land annexation isn't what Putin wants. I've informed you of it many times but you stubbornly ignore it. That evidence is the way, having beaten Georgia in 2008, he completely withdrew once they agreed they would not join...

Wishful thinking and undue optimism again. He could outlive us. If the war stops next year the inflation won't have made a difference. And in Russia's world, ruling parties never lose elections. At least 70% is the usual minimum winning figure. .

Your unrealistic optimism. Agreed. They won't. Zelensky wants it to end very soon and the Ukranian public are at the end of their tether. They won't stand for prolongation and many don't care how it ends now. They just want it to end. Trump is only interested in showing quick results...

You are just trying to reassure yourself, only yesterday you were speaking of a buffer zone. Russia won this war nearly two years ago when it took all the Azov and Black Sea coastlines as far as the Dnipr river and Kherson oblast, achieving nearly all of its real objective. Since then it has...

Be careful what you wish for! We've had them for 855 years and it feels more like 8,550. :( .

I wasn't ! ! Remember I posted two days before the war started** what his real objective was, complete with photos of the southern area he would aim for, not Kiev. That attack in the north from Belarus was a dummy, pleased to take Kiev if at all possible but not bothered if not since he...