UK News 28-04-2005 who: MG Rover what: Was doomed to collapse, says academic study where: Cambridge University, CAMBRIDGE when: This week snippet: "The real surprise is not that Rover has gone under - it is the process took so long to happen," says a report by the Cambridge-MIT Institute, an alliance between the University of Cambridge and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the USA, reported by the BBC. Elsewhere, Sunday Times columnist Jeremy Clarkson denies that it was his harsh criticism that caused Rover`s declining sales while The Mirror says that about 60 British MG Rover engineers have been stranded in China, South Korea and India since the company went into administration. The Guardian says Gordon Brown has promised redundant Rover workers that they will be allowed to return the cars they bought from the company and will have their debts written off. [... more]

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