FORMER Rover workers were offered support when a top MP came on a fact finding visit to Rubery.
Secretary of State at the Department for Trade and Industry, Alan Johnson, met former Rover apprentices at the Hollymoor Centre, Manor Park Grove, where they are now being trained in other skills.
He spoke to them about people who have now found new work and chatted with Gemma Cartwright, who set up the Rover Workers Fund.
Before going to the centre, he paid a visit to the Advantage West Midlands offices, in Birmingham, and spoke with people on the Rover task force.
While in Rubery the MP also stopped off at a nearby job centre. The visit was to learn exactly what was happening in the area for former Longbridge workers.
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