Shadow Business Minister Mark Prisk MP has called on the Government to put measures in place to secure the future of West Midlands car maker Jaguar Land Rover.

Responding to the news in the Coventry Telegraph that the company could suffer the same fate as MG Rover if the Government does not intervene, Mr. Prisk said: "It has been six months since the automotive assistance package was announced. Since then the French, German and American governments have all delivered aid packages to their car industries.

"Yet here in the UK, ministers are still dithering over what to do. The result is that no British car firms have received a penny, including Jaguar Land Rover.

"A Conservative government would already have established a temporary National Loans Guarantee Scheme designed to get credit flowing again in order to prevent the type of situation we are seeing at JLR.

"Yet under Labour British car firms are the last to get the help they have been promised. The clock is ticking-ministers need to start acting and stop talking."

Cllr Kevin Foster, Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman for Coventry South, has today questioned the 20% rise in Government advertising spending in 2008 alone. The Government is now the second largest advertiser in the UK, just behind Proctor & Gamble, with a total bill for PR, advertising and marketing of £400m. Gordon Brown spent £54 million more of taxpayers' money on advertising in his first year than Tony Blair in his last year.

Coventry Conservatives are supporting International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHoT) and will be on hand at a stall and balloon release in Coventry city centre on Saturday, May 16, to raise awareness of homophobia and trans-phobia. The event has been organised by the Coventry Partnership and seventy-five balloons will be released at mid-day from Broadgate to represent the number of countries where it's still a criminal offence to be gay, lesbian or bisexual or where people are punished or imprisoned because of their sexuality, along with a further 7 to represent those countries where homosexuality is punishable by death.