The continued success and globalisation of Asian industry has brought or even maintained employment across the UK. It is estimated that Indian businesses have created some 19,000 new jobs in Britain over the last year. This figure does not include the 14,000 jobs that were saved at Jaguar and Land Rover when the Indian engineering firm Tata Motors acquired them.
Car company Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) is to create up to 600 jobs under a £700m investment plan. This expansion comes not long after the company was bought by Tata Motors from Ford for £1.7bn.
The recruitment drive aims to attract engineers to work on new technology and product devlopment programmes, althoguht there will also be jobs in purchasing, finance and human resources. Also a new programme for more than 80 graduates to join the business in Spetember is being launched.
Most of the jobs will be at the firm’s devlopment centre in Gaydon, Warwickshire. JLR currently employs some 16,000 people at plants in Solihull and Liverpool, as well as the devlopment centres at Gaydon and Coventry.
The AA has announced plans to move its entire driving school operation from its Bristol office to its flagship building in Cardiff where it already employes over 500 people in its insurance call centre.
This move is due to take place in June and will create more than 100 jobs at the AA centre of excellence in Cardiff. The AA has confirmed that its 2,000 qualified instructors will be unaffected by the move.
Picture 80 brand new Jumbo Jets with your van signage on them, or think of 200,000 Aston Martin’s DB9’s, alternatively consider the 1.1 billion people across the world that live on less than $1 (50p) a day and that if you had £24billion you could feed that many people (over 400 times the population of the UK) for 2 months!
The Treasury collects £32 billion annually and £8 billion goes to the roads most of which is spent on repairs and maintenance, the remainding money of course doesn’t get wasted, however subsidising a failing (and occasionally dangerous) rail network might not be the best route for investment.
So when you’re next on a delivery and sitting in a traffic jam think of how your transport tax is being spent…..
Motorists are being warned about roadworks on the A30 near Launceston in Cornwall for the next five weeks, take some extra time to get to work.
