The carmaker has confirmed it will shut the plant in 2021, with the loss of about 3,500 jobs. Factory worker Martin Huggins called the news "a sad day for Swindon", while a Unite union leader said ...

So high is demand for the car, that the Cowley plant's German owners BMW are pumping another £40m into their Swindon plant. BMW Plant Swindon, which employs about 1,600 people, is a major ...

Honda has confirmed it will close its Swindon car plant in 2021, with the loss of about 3,500 jobs. The Japanese company builds 160,000 Honda Civics a year in Swindon, its only car factory in the EU.

The plant at Swindon will not produce any cars next February and March, although none of the 4,800 workers will be laid off. The Japanese firm is the latest carmaker to scale back production ...

Dallas-based Tiger Truck, the exclusive US importer of ChangAn vehicles, has announced plans to open an assembly plant in Jasper, TX. Tiger's vehicles are for off-road uses here in the US ...

Oxford is receiving a new, 1,000-robot body shop, and the Plant Swindon is getting laser-welding machines for body manufacturing. The Hams Hall plant is also getting updates to build components ...

Volunteers are being sought to help plant 10,000 trees in country parks and other locations in and around Swindon. It is part of the borough council's, external Trees for Climate programme ...

The Wiltshire Wildlife Trust also has a partnership with the council to plant new trees as part of the Swindon Forest Meadows project. See the parish and borough councils’ websites for dates of ...

Tasmanian tigers are a group of extinct marsupials called Thylacines that roamed New Guinea, the Australian mainland, and ...

A tiger mauled its handler at a popular amusement park on the Gold Coast in Australia, leaving the experienced worker hospitalized with “serious lacerations and puncture wounds” to her arm.

A tiger bit an animal handler on the arm Monday at an Australian amusement park, officials said. The woman was taken by ambulance from Dreamworld in Coomera in Queensland state to the Gold Coast ...