Guns used by royalty - some with gold triggers - are to be made in Northampton

A sporting gun manufacturer has opened a new factory in Northampton creating 30 jobs.

Longthorne hopes to make around 1,000 shotguns a year at its plant at the Waterside Enterprise Zone. The guns sell for between £15,000 and £30,000 pounds each and are mainly exported to Australia and the US.

It's a company with high profile clients. The Duchess of Rutland, Lord Coke of Holkham Hall in Norfolk , even Middle Eastern royalty apparently own Longthorne guns.

And now they're to be made in Northampton after the company outgrew its premises in Lancashire.

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