AS the dust begins to settle on the Rover debacle, the human side of the tragedy is beginning to come out.

When we read of 5,000 redundancies, it is all too easy to shake our heads, tut and turn the page.

When it is your neighbour who is facing losing his job of 21 years, it is a different matter.

In today's Worcester News we are highlighting the cases of just two Rover workers who face seemingly bleak futures.

Stewart Hart and Alan Lee were both employed - one directly, the other through a dealership - by Rover. Both are now wondering how they will keep a roof over their heads and their families fed.

These same questions are also being faced by 100 workers at Royal Worcester Porcelain, who will lose their jobs on Friday.

Although the redundancies were announced in January, it does not make the pain any less severe. These losses mean the plant will have lost half its workforce in little more than a year.

It is no surprise that all of these redundancies are in what remains of Britain's manufacturing industry.

Times are changing and it is unlikely these workers will find replacement jobs in similar industries.

But there are new challenges out there. More than 280 of them are contained within the pages of this newspaper alone.

And we hope those workers who have recently been made redundant will be at the head of the queue for each one.