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Rover

December 2022

  • Sir John Bourn in 2005

    Sir John Bourn obituary

    Long-serving comptroller and auditor general who scrutinised government spending and shed light on royal finances

February 2021

  • Listen to the first sounds recorded on Mars – video

    A scientist from the Perseverance rover invites people to 'imagine themselves sitting on the surface of Mars' and listen to the wind

January 2017

  • Margaret Thatcher waving from a car in Moscow in 1987.

    The lady is for turning: Thatcher practised reversing for filmed test drive

    Newly released files show aides had prime minister secretly try out new Rover model to avoid embarrassment before cameras

September 2016

  • A line of cars at a junction with a Vauxhall sitting in the foreground

    Many car brands emit more pollution than Volkswagen, report finds

    Diesel cars by Fiat, Suzuki and Renault among makers emitting up to fifteen times European standard for nitrogen oxide

April 2015

  • Former MG Rover plant in Longbridge, Birmingham. The appeals panel said Deloitte ensured the new directors, rather than MG Rover Group itself, benefited from 'expected very substantial' profits.

    Deloitte appeal over MG Rover collapse sees £14m fine cut to £3m

  • Part of the former MG Rover plant before demolition at Longbridge, West Midlands.

    MG Rover workers axed in carmaker's collapse could get VAT claim payout

September 2013

  • MG Rover's Longbridge plant in Birmingham

    Nils Pratley on finance
    FRC judgment on Deloitte over MG Rover could carry positive implications

  • MG Rover was bought in 2000 by John Towers, Nick Stephenson, John Edwards and Peter Beale

    Deloitte fined £14m for conflict of interest over MG Rover

July 2013

  • MG Rover

    Deloitte failed to manage conflicts of interest before demise of MG Rover

    Regulator criticises accountancy firm for advising 'Phoenix Four' businessmen at same time as auditing doomed carmaker

July 2012

  • Observer business agenda
    Osborne running out of royal excuses

    Simon Goodley
  • MG 1961 sports car

    From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 2 July 1980: The car for the thirties good life

May 2012

  • INDUSTRY Rover 16

    The Phoenix Four turned Rover workers' dreams to ashes

    Oliver Thomas
  • MG Rover

    Rover workers get £3 redundancy pay compensation after seven-year battle

January 2012

  • Bentley cars parked outside the Grand Lisboa Casino in Macau

    Bentley leads convoy for mini-recovery in UK car production

    December PMI figures and Bentley's 37% global sales rise bring a little new year cheer to European stockmarkets

December 2011

  • Jon Moulton

    The Friday interview
    Jon Moulton: a Dickens of a venture capitalist

    The tycoon's strong moral stance shows no sign of dimming, despite his being drawn into the Liam Fox affair

August 2011

  • Kevin Howe, former chief executive of MG Rover

    Chief executive of MG Rover during the Phoenix Four era gets back in business

    Kevin Howe has joined a limited liability partnership in a move likely to anger unions and MG Rover campaigners

May 2011

  • MG Rover

    MG Rover directors banned from running companies after collapse

    'Phoenix Four' disqualified from directorships after paying £42m in bonuses while running car firm into the ground

February 2011

  • Digger at Longbridge site

    St Modwen back in the black

    Property group makes first profit since 2007 as it unveils details of Longbridge redevelopment

July 2010

  • King

    Charles Spencer King obituary

    Automotive engineer behind the hugely successful Range Rover

April 2010

  • Rover car

    Case study: Car parts maker tooled up for the future

    Stuart Fell, whose company manufactures car parts, wants the next government to do more to encourage investment
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