Jaguar Land Rover today announced it will spend an extra £1 billion with UK suppliers, including many in the West Midlands.

Car parts firms across the Midlands are enjoying a boom in business thanks to the growth of Jaguar Land Rover, with the manufacturer’s new i54 engine plant set to support 3,000 jobs, the Express & Star can reveal.

The new £355 million Jaguar Land Rover plant on the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire border will produce an engine every 36 seconds.

The first soft top Range Rover has been unveiled by bosses at Jaguar Land Rover.

Apprenticeships are the hot career path for Black Country and Staffordshire youngsters worried about the prospect of hefty university fees as high as £9,000 a year – as a newly-launched recruitment event proved.

More than 20,000 people have applied for just 1,000 new manufacturing jobs at Jaguar Land Rover’s base in the West Midlands, it was revealed today.

The number of cars built by West Midlands-based Land Rover increased 33 per cent last year, new figures reveal.

A £36.7 million motorway flyover serving the Jaguar Land Rover engine plant in Wolverhampton will be built with a noise reducing surface, a government minister confirmed.

Jaguar Land Rover was expected to announce a 30 per cent hike in sales today – as it was revealed building work on its new engine factory on the Wolverhampton-Staffordshire border will create up to 600 jobs.

Jaguar Land Rover is to spend £1.8 million improving public transport in return for permission to build a £355m engine plant on the Wolverhampton-Staffordshire border.