With plastic intake manifolds and head-mounted injectors, it weighs a scant 234 pounds.

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Kirsty Scott, head of organisation performance at JLR, said it was "another significant intake of new apprentices in 2013".

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Christopher McShane, head teacher of Winton School in Hampshire, described his school as having an overall lower-ability intake and made the case for the value of vocational qualifications.

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