Discovery jobs blow

JAGUAR Land Rover is to shift all production of its Discovery model to Slovakia from Birmingham in a move likely to affect hundreds of workers.

The company said the switch will take place early next year and that agency workers are most at risk from the decision.

The announcement comes after profits at Jaguar Land Rover fell to £364 million, down from £676 million last year. A BRITISH mother has vowed to return to Canada to get more cannabis oil used to treat her son’s severe epilepsy after having a supply confiscated at Heathrow Airport.

Charlotte Caldwell made the trip to Toronto and back with 12-year-old Billy to get a six-month supply to treat up to 100 seizures a day, but said border officials seized the oil yesterday.

Ms Caldwell, from Castlederg in Co Tyrone, accused Home Office Minister Nick Hurd of having “likely signed my son’s death warrant” before heading to a London meeting with him.

“It’s Billy’s anti-epileptic medication that Nick Hurd has taken away, it’s not some sort of joint full of recreational cannabis,” she told a press conference.

“I will just go back to Canada and get more and I will bring it back again because my son has a right to have his anti-epileptic medication in his country, in his own home. We are not going to stop, we are not going to give up, we have love, hope, faith for our kids and we are going to continue.”

Ms Caldwell, 50, was due to meet Mr Hurd at the Home Office yesterday afternoon to plead to him “parent to parent” to get the oil returned.