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  SOUTHAMPTON MP John Denham is demanding Ford reveals more details of its plans for jobs in the city after the company revealed a £24m boost to its factory in Wales.
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           <title>Cameron 'trying to stop closure of Ford factory'</title>
           
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  THE Prime Minister today said the government was continuing to do everything it could to stop the closure of the Ford factory next month.
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           <title>Ford drivers claim they will get £27,000 less than colleagues</title>
           
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  A NEW row has broken out over payouts for workers hit by the closure of Southampton’s Ford plant.
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           <title>Multi-million pound fund launched early to to help Ford workers</title>
           
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  MULTI-MILLION pound business start-up fund in Southampton is to be launched early to help Ford workers facing redundancy start their own businesses.
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           <title>MP banned from Ford factory visit</title>
           
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  FORD bosses have banned Southampton MP John Denham from visiting its threatened Swaythling plant site, claiming his presence would “disrupt output”.
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           <title>Government pledge to help Ford workers</title>
           
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  THE Government will do all it can to help Ford workers bounce back from losing their jobs, a minister said yesterday.
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           <title>Southampton Ford Transit supplier to shut down</title>
           
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  A FACTORY that provides vehicle upholstery for Southampton's doomed Ford plant is to close with the loss of 30 jobs, it has been revealed today.
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           <title>Unions call for Southampton Ford staff to join European fight against cuts</title>
           
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  Union bosses and politicians have called on Southampton transit workers to join them in a unite Euro fight against Ford job cuts.
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           <title>Ford staff in Belgium reject 70,000 euro redundancy package</title>
           
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  UNIONS in Belgium have rejected a proposed 70,000 euro payoff by Ford for workers at its Genk plant.
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           <title>A tale of two cities hit by Ford cuts</title>
           
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  THEY are two cities that have both suffered major blows at the hands of car maker Ford.
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           <title>20,000 march against Ford cuts</title>
           
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  THOUSANDS of protestors have taken to the streets in a mass demonstration against Ford cuts across Europe.
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           <title>Leaked memo reveals Ford told ministers it would keep Transit plant</title>
           
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  FORD was telling ministers it would preserve its Southampton base back in 2008, documents obtained by the Daily Echo show.
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           <title>Ford bosses face barrage by angry MPs</title>
           
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  FORD bosses are given a dressing down by Hampshire MPs over the way the closure of the Southampton plant was handled.
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           <title>Euro bank bosses condemned over £80m Ford loan</title>
           
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  EUROPEAN bank bosses have claimed they were clueless about Ford’s plans to ditch Southampton’s plant when handing £80m to its Turkey factory.
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           <title>Angry Ford workers in violent protest at firm's Euro HQ</title>
           
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  Ford workers angry about the car maker's plans to shut their plant broke windows and torched tyres outisde the company's European headquarters today.
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           <title>Ford closure: Donate factory site to city, demands MP</title>
           
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  FORD has been urged to donate its Southampton Transit factory site to the city if it presses ahead with its closure plans.
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           <title>Ford boycotted over closure plans?</title>
           
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  Ford could face a white van man backlash when it switches Transit production to Turkey.
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           <title>Focus on Ford: How the road let to Turkey</title>
           
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  How investment abroad and a rescue plan to return Ford's ailing European business to profit has driven production of the iconic Transit to Turkey.
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           <title>Focus on Ford: The US decision to close the Southampton Transit plant</title>
           
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  How the board of Ford Motor Company agreed the plan to close Southampton's Transit factory.
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           <title>Focus on Ford: The £80m EU loan for Ford's Turkish Transit plant</title>
           
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  How a £80m Euro loan was agreed to boost production of the Transit in Turkey just months before Ford bosses announced the closure its its Southampton van plant.
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           <title>Focus on Ford: The British Government grant</title>
           
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  QUESTIONS remain over a £10m Government grant awarded to Ford just days before it announced the close its Southampton Transit plant.
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           <title>Ford workers offered up to £80,000 pay offs</title>
           
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  Ford workers are being offered pay-offs of up to £80,000 as unions prepare to ballot their members on possible strike action over the closure of Southampton’s transit plant.
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           <title>Ford's £80m EU loan to boost Turkey factory - and close ours</title>
           
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  THE Daily Echo can reveal today that a huge payout of EU cash was made to Ford just before the company closed its Southampton plant – and it went to boost Transit production in Turkey.
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           <title>Unions fight to reverse Ford closure</title>
           
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  UNION members launched their fight last night to save Ford's Swaythling plant from oblivion.
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           <title>Prime Minister tackled over Ford's £10m taxpayer hand out</title>
           
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  THE CONTROVERSY surrounding a public handout to Ford has reached the very top of government after David Cameron was challenged in the House of Commons.
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           <title>Lord Heseltine denies responsibility for huge Ford grant</title>
           
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  Lord Heseltine, who is chairman of the Regional Growth Fund, yesterday denied responsibility for rubber-stamping a huge grant for Ford just days before plans to close the Swaythling Transit plant were announced.
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           <title>Ford's £17,000 offer to avoid strike action</title>
           
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  Ford workers facing redundancy in Southampton are being offered special payments of up to £17,000 to head off possible industrial action, the Daily Echo can reveal.
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           <title>Ford did not tell Government of plant closure plan</title>
           
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  Ford has admitted it kept secret plans to close the Southampton plant while negotiating a multi-million pound tax payer handout.
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           <title>Deputy PM challenged over Ford closure</title>
           
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  DEPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg has been challenged over the closure of the Ford plant in Southampton.
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  Business Secretary Vince Cable was unaware Southampton’s Ford plant was going to be closed when taxpayers’ cash was approved for the company just days before, the Daily Echo can exclusively reveal today.
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           <title>Crisis talks to be held over Ford closure</title>
           
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  Q: The Daily Echo revealed last week that Ford was approved a Government multi-million pound grant from the Regional Growth Fund aimed at creating jobs in Essex – just less than a week before the car company announced its Southampton closure decision.
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           <title>Ford - where did it all go wrong?</title>
           
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  Matt Smith traces where it all went wrong for Southampton's Ford Transit factory.
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  CRISIS talks will take place next week as business, city and civic leaders come together in the wake of the announcement to close Ford in Southampton.
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  AT least 200 more jobs could go as Ford’s closure sends shockwaves through the local economy, the Daily Echo can reveal.
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  THE Daily Echo can reveal today that Ford was approved a multi-million poun Government handout – less than a week before yesterday’s shock closure announcement of the Transit plant.
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  A NEW taskforce will now be created to try and quickly find new employment for the 500 workers losing their jobs.
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  UNION bosses who have accused Ford of betraying its workforce and its British customers will hold a mass meeting in Southampton on Monday for the 500 strong workforce.
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  THE workers have been betrayed. That’s the blunt assessment of MPs who have battled for years to save the plant – and were promised repeatedly that it had a long-term future.
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  IT was the blackest day.
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  SOUTHAMPTON and South West Hampshire Trade Union Council (TUC) have called an emergency meeting to discuss a campaign to save the Ford factory.
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  Ford has confirmed that Southampton’s Transit plant is to shut.
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  Ford workers in Southampton are understood to be offered a generous redundancy package or e job elsewhere with the company.
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  Business Secretary Vice Cable today described the Ford decision as "disappointing".
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  MP Caroline Nokes met senior Govnernment business leaders today to press them to help Ford staff.
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  Southampton MP John Denham has called on a the Government to set up a taskforce to help staff in the city axed by Ford.
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           <title>Ford closure would be latest jobs blow for the region</title>
           
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  THE ANNOUNCEMENT surrounding the possible closure of the Ford plant could potentially see 500 more people join the ever-growing dole queue in the region.
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