“Ministers will rightly come under pressure today over the job losses at Rolls Royce,” says Union

These type of quality, well paid and skilled jobs will not be easily replaced - it will have a devastating impact on workers but also the economy says GMB union GMB, the union for manufacturing workers, has criticised the Government following the news of 1000s of Rolls Royce job losses. The engineering giant is to cut 4,600 jobs over the next two years as part of a major reorganisation. Today,  Secretary of State for business Greg Clark faces an urgent...

Winding roads, rolling mist and wild boar in northern Corsica

The night drive from Bastia to Murato is not for the faint-hearted.  It is an ear-popping, nerve-shredding pinball ride through the madly winding hilltop lanes of northern Corsica, where the white line in the middle of the road appears to serve purely for decorative purposes.  At one heart-stopping point a young wild boar leaps out of the gorse and into our path to stare us down.  His body language says: "It's a hire car, pally.  Even if you drive into...

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