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Vauxhall has closed its Luton plant after 120 years. The last van came off the production line on Friday with 1,100 jobs now on the line.
Vauxhall’s van-making factory in Luton, Bedfordshire, closed on Friday. Parent company Stellantis said it will now transfer “machinery and process knowledge” to its plant in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.
As a boy, Mr Coomber enjoyed a love of cars, but growing up in Brighton on the south coast he had no experience of living in ...
The site of Vauxhall's Luton plant has been bought by an undisclosed commercial owner, days after the last van rolled off its production line. The industrial estate off Kimpton Road has been used for ...
More than 1,700 new jobs could be on the way as the Vauxhall factory site in Luton looks set to be redeveloped into a ...
The Vauxhall plant in Luton has been bought by a property group who said it would spend £400m regenerating the site into a ...
The buyers of the former Vauxhall van plant in Luton have revealed plans to turn the site into a high-quality commercial and ...
A mural artist who has repainted the Art Deco facade of an old cinema said her work aimed to convey a sense of hope, colour, ...
The former ABC Cinema has been given a fantastic facelift by an artist – with help from Luton Borough Council.
Opel made its first car in 1899 and became a GM subsidiary in 1929. Post-war it grew to become Germany’s second-largest car ...
The last van has rolled off the assembly line at Vauxhall’s historic Luton plant. Marking ‘the end of an era’, the last Vivaro van came off the production line at 12.18 on Friday ...
It announced the closure of its Luton factory in November 2024, putting 1,100 jobs at risk. The company said at the time that the decision was made within the context of the Government’s ...