The plant is part of Qantas' efforts to improve its fuel efficiency by 1.5 percent by the year 2020.

There's a growing feeling amongst a significant section of the shadow cabinet Labour needs to move beyond its "empty chair" critique of the Tories. "We're selling the pass," says another worried shadow cabinet member. "When it comes to the referendum question we haven't got a response. It's vital we get out ahead of Cameron before his speech. If we don't, we're going to get locked into a position where we basically say nothing."

You could argue, indeed, that almost everything wrong with our current Coalition can be put down to the fact of David Cameron's awkwardness about being an old Etonian. He daren't reduce the 50p tax rate (though it makes economic sense) lest he be seen to be favouring his rich friends in the City; he daren't create more free schools by allowing entrepreneurs to run them for profit for fear that this might come across as elitist; he daren't address the issue of the Europe because this is just the sort of thing blimpish, blue-blooded, Tory reactionaries do in the shires, and we can't have that now, can we?

Roma is now a keen advocate for more women in engineering but admits its not something that came naturally.

But despite the fact that more than 5,000 Syrians have now been killed during anti-government clashes during the past year, the British and French governments are?completely mute on the subject of?calling for similar measures to?protect innocent Syrians from the brutality of President Bashir al-Assad's regime.