Spyker Cars, the luxury sports car maker based in the Netherlands, have announced that they are moving an assembly plant to Coventry, the BBC reports.
Spyker make up to 50 luxury cars a year, mainly for the US market, with prices starting from about £180,000.
They said up to 45 out of 135 jobs would be at risk when they moved their assembly plant from Zeewolde in Holland to Whitley in Coventry by the end of 2009.
They …

Budget airline easyJet have been accused of trivialising genocide after their in-flight magazine featured fashion photographs shot at the Holocaust memorial in Berlin.
The November issue of In-flight contained two pictures of models posing at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Field of Stelae.
The memorial is Germany’s most prominent monument to the six million Jews killed in the nazi genocide. The pictures accompanied a feature marking the 20th anniversary of …

The Pope is to waive his own rules so he can preside in person over the beatification of Cardinal John Henry Newman during the papal visit to Britain next year, the Daily Mail reports.
In an unprecedented decision, Benedict XVI will take charge of the ceremony which will confer the title “Blessed” on the Victorian convert from Anglicanism.
The Pope has previously insisted that all beatifications – the last step before sainthood – are carried out by …

British shoppers have to pay 22 per cent more for their Christmas present shopping than American consumers, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Clothes, accessories, toys, and electrical goods all cost considerably more in Britain than in America, adding hundreds of pounds to the cost of Christmas shopping for consumers in this country.
In research for the Daily Telegraph, undertaken by the price comparison website Kelkoo, a basket of ten popular items costs £3,066 in Britain and £2,394 in …

British troops could be withdrawn from Germany for good if the Tories win the next General Election, the Daily Mail reports.
Conservative defence spokesman Liam Fox said it was no longer necessary to maintain the presence of more than 20,000 military personnel. Ending the commitment would free forces to carry out vital NATO operations outside Europe, he added.
Generations of squaddies and their families have passed through Germany, but the size of the troop commitment has been …

More than 500 people in Cumbria spent the night with relatives and friends or in emergency shelters after floods swept across the county, the BBC reports.
Cockermouth and Keswick were worst affected, but communities across Cumbria felt the impact of the deluge.
More rain is forecast later, but the Environment Agency said the floods should continue to recede. They said they hoped that Saturday afternoon’s rain would pass quickly.
Cumbria police said emergency services and local authorities had …

Nearly a dozen Polish prisons and detention centres have signed up their inmates to an unusual form of labour – rescuing overgrown, long-neglected Jewish cemeteries, Ha’aretz reports.
Poland was home to an estimated third of the world’s Jews before World War II but the vast majority perished in the Holocaust during nazi Germany’s occupation.
With few if any relatives left to tend family graves, Jewish cemeteries have fallen into a bad state of disrepair over the decades. …