Haunting photographs reveal how Longbridge MG Rover plant has lain abandoned

With unfinished cars left to rust on the production line (top right) and paperwork (bottom right) lying scattered in the empty shell of the factory, these eerie photographs show a famous MG Rover plant where time has stalled. Production at the Longbridge plant in Birmingham was massively scaled back after MG Rover collapsed in 2005 - meaning that the factory has been almost entirely unused over the past decade. The owners of MG Motor confirmed last week that the West Midlands factory has completely stopped assembling cars after almost a century of on-off production. Haunting images show how the derelict site has been deserted, with body shells of the Rover 75 left abandoned and personal items gathering dust in the empty offices. The images are a sharp contrast to the bustling pictures from the factory's hey-day in 1979 (inset) when the plant employed 25,000 workers.

Sam Allardyce FORCED OUT as England manager after just 67 days following crisis talks at

The England manager's career was thrown into jeopardy last night after footage emerged of the 61-year-old apparently dishing out controversial tips to undercover Daily Telegraph reporters who were posing as businessmen from a Far East firm (right). Yesterday, as the bombshell claims emerged, new FA chairman Greg Clarke and chief executive Martin Glenn hauled Allardyce to a meeting where he was grilled about the allegations. This morning, the 61-year-old - who was hired for the top job just two months ago - was seen leaving his home in Bolton, Greater Manchester (left), to make his way to Wembley for a crunch meeting. FA bosses are now said to be close to deciding whether his position is untenable but are believed to have major concerns about him continuing in the role. They told the Mail that they wanted the 'full facts' before making a 'judgement' and are understood to have organised this morning's meeting to hear his version of events.

The England boss, whose managerial future is today under scrutiny, cruelly referred to Roy Hodgson as 'Woy' before claiming he would be a bad public speaker as he would 'send them all to sleep'.

The shocking clip shows how six men allegedly pulled up with baseballs bats, chains and knives in a targeted attack that killed a victim in his 30s in Dagenham, East London.

Catherine Hutley, principal at Philip Morant School and College, in Colchester, Essex, claims staff will be able to use the time to plan lessons more precisely.

Sadiq Khan has hammered home the mantra Labour must be 'in power' more than 30 times in a ten minute speech in a rebuke to Jeremy Corbyn.

Elsie Frost, 14, was stabbed in the back and head as she walked through a railway tunnel just off a canal towpath in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, in 1965.

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Interactive map lets you check how happy YOUR town is

New figures from the Office for National Statistics have laid bare the parts of the country which are the happiest, most miserable, anxious and have the highest and lowest levels of life satisfaction. The Outer Hebrides came top of the happiness rankings, scoring 8.24 out of 10. While East Northamptonshire was bottom, scoring a lowly 7.01. Elsewhere the most anxious place was Hammersmith & Fulham in London and Corby residents reported the lowest levels of life satisfaction. The grim - or encouraging - details can even be checked out using a special interactive map.

The average house price in the Northamptonshire town comes in at around £183,345, compared to £740,000 in central London, Lloyds Bank said.

Allan Hale, 39, (pictured) was drinking with his partner in a Gateshead pub before he got behind the wheel of his silver Mercedes Benz C-Class and hit and killed father of two Gavin Bolam.

The tanker Ineos Intrepid passed beneath the Forth Bridge with 27,5000 cubic metres of ethane and docked at Grangemouth in what company bosses said was the culmination of a £1.6billion investment.

Michelle Mone plans to expand £1.5m 'dream' mansion with an extra wing for her father

The Tory peer is to add a new open-plan courtyard with an extravagant glass ceiling and luxurious kitchen (pictured, plans, inset) to the side of the gated house in Scotland (main). Baroness Mone will also create a self-contained annex for her disabled father, convert the bar and cinema room into a self-contained annex for her teenage daughter, and extend the main house to the rear. She planned the extension after buying her ex-husband Michael (pictured together, right) out.

The asylum-seeker, aged in his 40s, has begged to be moved from his council flat Swansea after he was burgled by Phillipa Turner (pictured).

Consultant David Mills (pictured with wife Alison) arranged for Lynden Scourfield to receive lavish gifts at the expense of a company called Bradman Lake Group, Southwark Crown Court heard.

Research has shown that eating 800 calories a day for eight weeks is the best way to lose weight quickly and dramatically reduce your risk of diabetes, writes DR MICHAEL MOSLEY

Jeremy Paxman was blasted for mispronouncing David Bowie's name as 'bough-ie' rather than the singer's preferred 'boh-ee' during a University Challenge music round.

Hamid Bhatti, 24, allegedly slept with the pupil 14 times after grooming her while on a work placement at her school in Yeovil, Somerset. He is said to have lavished her with loves notes and jewellery.

The victim reportedly ran away screaming for help and collapsed outside Poundland in Lewisham Shopping Centre after the brutal stabbing at around 4.30pm yesterday.

Alton Towers owners Merlin fined £5M over Smiler ride crash

Judge Michael Chambers QC called the accident a 'catastrophic failure' and a 'shambles' which could have been avoided. Two teenagers - Vicky Balch (left) and Leah Washington (third from the left)- each lost a leg in the collision in June last year. Miss Washington's boyfriend, Joe Pugh (second from left), was also injured. The court heard of a catalogue of errors by the theme park's managers in the build-up to the accident. Nicholas Varney, the chief executive of Merlin Entertainments who took home a £733,000 pay packet in the same year as the Smiler crash, also attended court (right).

Celebrities arrive to pay tribute to Sir Terry Wogan at Westminster Abbey service

Claudia Winkleman, Dermot O'Leary and Fearne Cotton were among the stars at Westminster Abbey today as the showbusiness world paid tribute to Sir Terry Wogan in a thanksgiving service. The likes of Alesha Dixon, Gaby Roslin, Esther Rantzen and Jimmy Carr also gathered for the event in London that comes 50 years after the Limerick-born broadcaster's first BBC radio broadcast. Sir Terry, known for his velvety voice on radio and television, gave enjoyment to audiences over six decades, but died aged 77 after a battle with cancer. Lady Susan Hussey, the Queen 's Lady-in-Waiting, represented her at the service. Pictured arriving at Westminster Abbey today (from left) are: Chris Evans, his wife Natasha Shishmanian, Alesha Dixon, Dermot O'Leary, Claudia Winkleman, Fearne Cotton and Sara Cox.

Alfred Irons (pictured) was the victim of an unprovoked road rage attack in Nazeing, Essex on Saturday afternoon. Police believe the thug who attacked him was between 60 and 70 years old.

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: Apparently, aid workers are at it like rabbits with those 'vulnerable people' they are supposed to be helping - and the women are the worst of the lot.

Anglesey Council says that because most children are potty trained between ages of two and three, people should prove their child's age to receive the nappy collection service.

Christopher Stephenson, 32, (pictured) admitted having a series of drunken romps with a teenage pupil when he was a maths teacher at Grey Coat Hospital school in Westminster, London.

Kate Middleton joins Prince William for historic ceremony with Canadian First Nations 

After a dress down day in the rain forest, Kate was the epitome of glamour at a reception for political and civic leaders from across British Columbia at Government House in Victoria. She and William mingled with 200 guests in the ballroom of the grand house, the monarch's official residence in the province of British Columbia. But before the reception they joined around 25 people, including First Nations representatives, in the drawing room for a ceremony designed to heal the wounds of conflict between indigenous people and the government.

Ben Needham police discover pieces of light coloured fabric during dig to find body

Officers say they have discovered 'items of fabric' in the olive grove they are searching on the island of Kos, Greece, 25 years after the British toddler went missing. Ben, who went missing in July 1991, was wearing a white buttoned T-shirt with a green motif and brown leather sanders with a buckle when he vanished. He was not wearing any shorts as he had wet them earlier in the day and his grandmother had hung them on a tree to dry. Detective Inspector Jon Cousins, who is leading the new search, said the pieces of fabric were of 'slight interest'.

The alleged victims suffered 'degrading, violent and horrible' sexual abuse in Bristol - with the men seeing of the girls as 'cheap and easy', the city's Crown Court was told.

Ben Regan was thrown 15 metres in the air when he was hit by a Mini Cooper driven by Jake Polmeer as he tried to cross the road in Reigate, Surrey. He died at the scene.

Travel organisation Abta warned that many travellers who have difficulty walking only request assistance once they arrive at the airport, which may be too late.

Now Countryfile seems to have fallen foul of Bake Off's love of innuendo. Viewers of Sunday's anniversary special of One Man and his Dog were left shocked - and sniggering - at references to 'dogging'.

The BBC has billed the change as being one intended to enhance the personalisation of content, though it has been speculated that it might feed into its clampdown on licence-fee evaders.

Danielle Karaisko, 23, from Cardiff, shared pictures of her 'red raw' skin after using the 'Face Precision Wax Strips' in preparation for a christening.

Labour in La-La-Land: Pledge to borrow £500bn, state benefits for ALL and top MP punches

Just two days after re-electing Jeremy Corbyn as leader, the party's credibility was shredded again. It wheeled out a series of hard-Left 1970s policies at the party conference that enraged even its union paymasters. Delegates were told of an outright ban on fracking, which would risk thousands of jobs, a £10-an-hour minimum wage and a plan to put every adult on state benefits. In an extraordinary incident, senior frontbencher Clive Lewis punched a wall in a row with Mr Corbyn's aides over Trident. And the leader's key allies caused uproar by playing down the party's anti-Semitism crisis and by calling Brexit voters racists.

Labour's health spokesman said 'people who talk Brexit' had 'attacked and assaulted' ethnic minority voters and East Europeans after the referendum.

John McDonnell, a mechanical orator (hand gestures courtesy of 'Thunderbirds'), was laying down his vision. 'In this party you no longer have to whisper it' - an icy smile - 'it's called Socialism.'

The party's energy spokesman Barry Gardiner said that if Labour ever got into power, it would outlaw the controversial practice in England.

Mathias Döpfner (pictured), chief executive of Axel Springer, says Brexit will see the nation embrace a truly free market, while the EU will be a 'transfer union' in which money goes from rich states to poor ones.

Ken Rogoff (pictured), the former chief economist at the International Monetary Fund, said China could suffer a calamitous slowdown - dragging the rest of the world down with it.

A knock on the door... and 6 years of lies crumbled in an instant: Then the canoe wife

She shocked the world by helping her husband John Darwin (pictured leaving Hartlepool Magistrates court, bottom right) fake his death in a canoe in order to cash in his life insurance. Now, in an extraordinary new book, Anne Darwin (shown flying back to the UK, main, and under arrest in Manchester, top right) is revealing all. Yesterday, she told how her escape to Panama turned to disaster. Today, she tells how she and her husband made a last-ditch attempt to save their skin - and the awful consequences for their children.

Rishi Loatey, of the British Chiropractic Association, which commissioned the research, also suggested that women may suffer from carrying heavy handbags.

A quarter of the most seriously-ill newborns in the UK are being allowed to become dangerously cold because their temperature has not been closely monitored (stock image).

Dr Chopik, of Michigan State University, tracked the health and happiness of almost 2,000 couples for six years. Analysis showed that a partner's happiness affected their other half's health.

One in five say their dietary choice is specifically designed to help prevent conditions such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol or hypertension.

A study by Plymouth University sought to measure the potential harm caused by microfibres in synthetic clothing materials. Researchers studied the mass, abundance and size of fibres.

Around 100 million urinary catheters are used around the world, but they carry a high infection risk. The honey stops 'biofilms' - a goo consisting of a mixture of different types of bacteria - building up.

James Heappey, who is now an MP for Wells, said the decision made to shoot the speeding car coming towards the the troops on that day in 2005 was necessary to protect soldiers.

Soldiers and MPs pointed out that Tony Blair's actions led to the inquiries because he ignored expert advice in signing up to the International Criminal Court and took Britain to war in Iraq.

Sir Michael Fallon has been accused of 'gagging' a senior officer and three soldiers who planned to tell an inquiry how they were hounded by investigators over the Iraq war.

George Clooney wife Amal worn £34,000 of clothes while championing the poor

Amal Clooney, 38, has spent the past fortnight parading her wardrobe by wearing a different designer label each day - and her collection of clothes is worth an eye-watering £34,403. On September 12, she wore a navy and maroon suit (left) by Sonia Rykiel (jacket, £1,080, skirt, £786). On September 16, the lawyer (second left) stood out in a sea of black suits in this £1,100 cream wool silk Gucci dress, paired with a £1,255 D&G; red leather Anna bag. On September 20, she attended a UN discussion including husband George, involving their charity, the Clooney Foundation For Justice and wore a Jackie O-style tea dress (centre left). On September 21, she wore a £1,470 Gucci dress (centre right). On September 22, she donned this asymmetric scarlet wrap dress, £595 by New York designer Proenza Schouler (second right). On September 25, Amal stepped out in this floral print black and beige dress, £2,696 by Michael Kors (right).

Lee Deakin (pictured) avoided jail after he admitted kicking the Birmingham policewoman in the chest as officers struggled to arrest him after a drunken fight in the city centre.

Twana Jamal, 36, was busted after fed-up migrants turned on him and tipped off the authorities about his illegal cross-Channel operation. He was jailed for five years at a court in Dunkirk.

Tributes have poured in for Paul Shekleton (pictured), who died while swimming off the coast of Mayara, Trinidad. The 71-year-old had been in the resort with his wife, who is from the island, and her family.

Amy Stinton, 30, from Portsmouth, had to rush her 14-month-old son Oliver to hospital after he came out in painful blisters on his feet, legs, under his arms and around his mouth.

Brit Michael Soden, 54, was last seen on Thursday evening in the city of Pattaya, where he took a young sex worker back to the guest house where he was staying but was found dead the next morning.

John McAreavey wedded Tara Brennan at a ceremony in Ireland's Co Kildare on Saturday, five years after he found his newly-wedded wife Michaela dead in the bath at their five-star resort.

Paida Mutopo, 20, from Rochdale, was told she was HIV-positive when she was just 11. Five months ago, she gave birth to a healthy son, Kai, who does not have the virus.

Sam King, from Herefordshire, wanted to fly her three-year-old pet, Harold, and two other dogs Ellie and Pillie, to Tenerife to see her 20-year-old son Danny who lives on Tenerife.

A retired British policeman died when he was hit by a car just 200 metres from the finish line of a cycle race in France. Police are investigating the death of former Police Constable Ian Bashford, 61.

Police officer shows incredible restraint as driver who blocked traffic attacks HIM

The clip shows the Fiat 500 driver complaining about being pulled over for the dangerous manoeuvre in a London road.While the officer was checking his details the driver, who is called Hussan, has been Googling the Highway Code and starts to claim he was unfairly stopped. As the officer hands him back his licence he says: 'Basically, I've just looked up the Highway Code, and I don't know if you maybe want to look it up yourself, but it is actually not illegal or an offence to do a U-Turn on a main road in the UK unless its stated or there is any signage.' But the unimpressed police officer is very short with the young driver.

Glamour model Gemma Boal, 24, was today cleared of stealing a £28,000 Hublot watch from an Iraqi businessman after attending a party at a luxurious apartment in Knightsbridge, London.

Lucasz Gal was just five weeks old when his father, convicted kidnapper Tomasz Raszkiewicz, pushed his mother into a doorframe as she cradled him in his arms. He was jailed for three years.

Managing director Vernon Yerkess, 43, his wife Theresa, also 43, and their sons Benjamin, 23, and Harrison, 18, went berserk after a row with door staff over entry to a bar in Whalley, Lancashire.

Lynden Scourfield, 54, was allegedly involved in a 'corrupt relationship' with business consultant David Mills (pictured), 60, Southwark Crown Court heard.

'We're seeing more of him than ever!' Angry Corrie fans blast bosses as shamed star Marc

Viewers have expressed outrage that disgraced Corrie actor Marc Anwar, who was sacked for making racist comments, still appeared on the soap tonight. The 45-year-old, who called Indians 'b******' and 'p*** drinking c****' in a Twitter rant on Friday, was back onscreen playing love cheat Sharif Nazir on Monday evening's episode. Furious fans of the ITV soap branded the decision 'really painful watching', while one viewer even called it 'the Sharif show' as they criticised the amount of screen time Marc was given.

It begins with a close-up of a wobbly bottom as a plus-size model saunters to the lavatory in just her underwear, and goes on to feature extreme muscles (pictured) and some hairy armpits.

Ian Wheatcroft, 44, subjected husband and wife Clive and Alice Jones to a campaign of harassment while he was their next-door neighbour in an attractive area of Totton in Hampshire.

Aeub Ali forced the door of his store in Hull shut with a broom to protect his customers as the 'crazy' man slashed at it with a knife.

Up to eight men pulled up in two cars before beating the victim in his 30s and stabbing him multiple times in Dagenham, East London, according to witnesses.

Adele Hughes, 35, from Rochdale, (pictured, in a brace and on crutches) attacked former best friend Leigh Tomlinson during a confrontation over 'hurtful remarks' made tothe victim's children.

The infamous crook, 65 was the subject of Operation Alpine, a top secret 'listening post' which helped to build up an accurate picture of Palmer's criminal network.

Stratford-upon-Avon family transform their suburban semi into a 1940s timewarp

Kitten Von Mew and husband Richard, from Stratford-upon-Avon, are besotted with the roaring Forties and have transformed their family home into a tribute to the period. They try and follow a wartime diet, with spam a firm favourite, and wear vintage clothes. (Pictured from left: Kitten Von Mew applying lipstick, with husband Richard and daughter Betsy. Inset, outside their family home)

They had asked for a Hillsborough-style funding arrangement , where the state paid the bills. Julie Hambleton (pictured), whose sister died in the blast, has expressed her disappointment.

Halliwell, 52, (pictured) was found guilty of the murder of Swindon sex worker Becky Godden last week, five years after he abducted and killed night clubber Sian O' Callaghan from the same town.

The Bake Off star was surrounded by naked people for filming. He didn't explain what he was up to but fans wondered if he's conducting interviews for a a new co-presenter.

A survey of the nation's cooking habits suggest these once popular dishes could go the same way as Bosworth Jumbles, the Aberdeen Rowie and Shropshire Fidget Pie.

Flt Lt SeanCunningham died in November 2011, when the ejection seat suddenly engaged while his aircraft was still on the runway at RAF Scampton, near Lincoln.

A 3,540 sq ft luxury three-bedroom townhouse in London's Mayfair is set to become one of the world's most expensive student houses - with an eye-watering rental price of £4,000 a week.

Turner Prize entries include an enormous pair of golden buttocks and  £20,000 in pennies

The winner of the controversial prize will be announced in December. Work by the four shortlisted artists competing for the £25,000 award is on show at Tate Britain. They include Anthea Hamilton's giant sculpture of a backside (main image). Her work also consists of a 'brick suit' (middle right) - a fabric suit which camouflages with the wall behind. Michael Dean's work includes a sculpture consisting of £20,435.99 (top right), while a model of a train entitled The New Media Express in a Temporary Siding 2016 (bottom right) has been installed by artist Josephine Pryde. Helen Marten is the other nominee.

The Department for Transport's Think! campaign advert was criticised on social media after warning cyclists to 'hang back' while showing a lorry overtaking a bike at a junction (pictured).

EuroMillions players must now choose from an extra number under changes that decrease the odds of winning the jackpot, while the price is going up from £2 to £2.50 a line.

The engine of Kevin Armstrong's aircraft faltered while he was more than 2000 ft above the Norfolk countryside (pictured). After a minute its cuts out completely and he is forced to crash-land.

The Theatre, in Hackney, and the Hope, Bankside, London, were the first and last playhouses of the era built in London and have now been protected as monuments.

Emergency services were called to Bedminster, Bristol, at the weekend after a man in his 20s was spotted neck-deep in the River Avon.

Giant Asian hornets, which feast on bees, were spotted in Tetbury, Gloucestershire last week. Days later, this huge insect was pictured eating a wasp just 30 miles away in Long Ashton, Bristol.

Barbaric video shows Spanish farm workers in Murcia beating pregnant pigs with metal bars

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Footage shows the men laughing as they torture pregnant pigs and hit the animals over the head with iron bars and stab them with swords, left, at the El Escobar farm in Fuente Alamo, Murcia. In one clip, one of the men plays up to the camera as a pig writhes squealing and dying in front of them after he stabs it repeatedly along with a colleague. He flexes his biceps, top right, as he stands over the animal, bottom right, after killing it in the most savage way possible while a colleague jokes out loud: 'Rest in peace.'

Like all humans, five-month-old Abrahim Hassan carries DNA from both his parents. But he also has a tiny piece of genetic code from a donor. He was engineered by a US team in Mexico.

A judge lost his temper today, banging his gavel and shouting: 'This is not a show!' as cheers and jeers greeted the start of the trial of 15 people who allegedly attacked two Air France executives.

Two home-made explosive devices have gone off outside a mosque and a conference centre in the German city of Dresden hours after a march by the anti-Islam Pegida movement.

A photographer who ventured to a remote part of Burma has captured amazing images of elderly women with elaborate facial tattoos - traces of a culture which is fast dying out.

Colombia¿s President Juan Manuel Santos, front left, and the top commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) Rodrigo Londono, known by the alias Timochenko, shake hands after signing the peace agreement between Colombia¿s government and the FARC to end over 50 years of conflict in Cartagena, Colombia, Monday, Sept. 26, 2016. Behind, from left, are U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki Moon, Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto, Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, Cuba's President Raul Castro, and Spain's former King Juan Carlos. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and Farc leader Rodrigo Londono, signed the agreement before a crowd of 2,500 foreign dignitaries and special guests in the city of Cartagena.

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