Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has said it will resume some manufacturing production in the “coming days” as it continues to deal with the fallout from a major cyber attack .

The car manufacturer has been in shutdown mode since the beginning of September, and has already twice extended planned return days, with some estimates suggesting the company faces costs of £50m a week in lost production. Last week, the company said the shutdown would be extended until the start of October .

Over the weekend, the government agreed to provide a £1.5bn loan guarantee to JLR, in an effort to protect companies in its supply chain as well as the major manufacturer itself.

More than 33,000 people are directly employed by JLR in the UK, with a large number of those across car assembly lines. They were

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