UK news in brief

Cardiff: A struggling car parts factory is set to close, at a cost of 900 jobs, it was announced.

The Bosch plant in Miskin, near Cardiff, which makes alternators for the motor industry, is expected to shut at the end of an extended consultation period.

Gloucestershire: Prisoners were drafted in to get a football team's pitch clear of snow in time for a league match.

Inmates from Leyhill Open Prison answered the call when Blue Square Premier team Forest Green Rovers appealed for volunteers to help shift 6in of snow from their New Lawn ground.