First Browns Lane, then Longbridge and now Ryton.
4000 jobs to go, in a City of only about 300,000 that's quite a blow.
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I can see why they're closing it, the factory is in Socialist Party territory and they're always encouraging strikes. Peugeot workers are/were some of the best paid in Coventry. If you were doing agency work and got called in to Peugeot, it was your round on Friday night!
I guess in the near future, every other car on Coventry's streets won't be a 206 :)
Prace bets now on where the next Tescos is going to be built...