A TOTAL of 280 jobs are to be lost at a train parts and repair plant because of cutbacks, giant transport company Bombardier announced.

Nearly all the job losses are at Bombardier's facility at Crewe in Cheshire, with the company also closing a small satellite unit at Swindon.

in Wiltshire with the loss of 11 jobs.

Canadian-owned Bombardier, which makes trains at Derby, said it expected "a significant number" of the job losses to be achieved through voluntary redundancies.