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Jaguar Land Rover to create 1,300 UK jobs

Jaguar Land Rover will create 1,300 new jobs in the UK to helps build the brand’s first sports utility vehicle (SUV) model.

The jobs will be based at its Solihull plant in the West Midlands.

The luxury car manufacturer, which is owned by India’s Tata Motors, said it had chosen the UK because it was keen to maintain its British roots.

The car, called the Jaguar F-PACE, will go on sales in 2016 and will be based on its C-X17 concept car which was first showcased at the Frankfurt motor show in 2013.

The firm, which already employ 30,500 people in the UK, has already invested £1.5 billion in the Solihull plant. Its workforce at the plant has almost doubled over the past three years to 9,450.

Business secretary Vince Cable said Jaguar Land Rover’s decision demonstrates the good health of the UK’s car manufacturing sector.

He said: “The UK’s automotive industry is thriving with a new car rolling off the production line every 20 seconds, and increasing levels of investment that’s helping to secure local jobs,”

Jaguar Land Rover chief executive Dr Ralf Speth said the announcement demonstrated its “commitment to the UK and the advancement of a high-tech, high-skilled, manufacturing-led economy”.

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