Jobs to go at car parts factory

More than 130 jobs are to be lost when a car parts factory in the Black Country shuts in April.

Stokes Forgings had been one of the largest suppliers of car components in the UK.

Officials at its factory in Walsall said they were being forced to shut it because of a slump in the motor industry.

A total of 137 workers are based at its Northcote Street site, which has been operating there for the past 101 years.

The company supplied car parts for Land Rover, Ford and Jaguar.

The firm said it would be keeping its other two Black Country bases in Cochrane Road, Dudley, and Vine Street, in Brierley Hill.

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