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Article: Rover: The epic tale of a fight for survival

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September 19, 2000
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THE Rover crisis gripped the Midlands for eight long weeks and now the first book on the drama is about to be published. It is reviewed here by Jon Griffin, Business Editor of the Evening Mail, which played a key role in the fight to save Longbridge.

SAFE AT LAST: The Evening Mail breaks the news that Rover has been bought by Phoenix

STIRRING SAGA: Co-authors Carl Chinn, left, and Stephen Dyson outside Q gate at Longbridge

Picture by Loretta Brennan

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IT was the biggest story in the UK's industrial heartland for decades, a 56-day epic which bore all the hallmarks of a blockbuster thriller.

The 'Rover for sale' saga had it all - heartache on a ...

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