THE WEEK THAT WAS: The portents are not good for Luton

Author: Graeme Roberts | 17 September 2010

A combination of my bad knee playing up, inspection of the tea leaves left in the newsdesk cup and one of those-omits-more-than-it-tells press releases one occasionally gets from automakers has me a bit worried about yet another UK vehicle assembly plant this Friday afternoon. I hope I'm wrong.

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