well as The Snow Centre Swindon, the North Star Leisure Complex will feature a 13-screen cinema (including the largest IMAX screen in Europe), a 19-lane bowling alley, a trampoline park, a gym, shops and the existing Oasis Leisure centre within 500,000sqft. The whole project — one of the largest leisure destinations in the UK — is to cost £270m and is being led by property development and investment company, SevenCapital.

The Snow Centre Swindon will feature two indoor real snow slopes; a 170m main slope, 75m lesson slope and a designated fun zone for sledging and snow play. When it is completed in 2020, it will become the UK’s seventh indoor skiing facility—and the first new real snow slope the UK has seen since The Snow Centre Hemel Hempsteadnew car is born

Local Motors has created the Strati -- a printed car developed with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. As of February, the company had produced four of the vehicles, of which two are electric, and capable of running.

The research and development site is Oak Ridge's Manufacturing Demonstration Facility in Knoxville, Tennessee. It is a "factory" filled with large 3-D printers, five-spindle machining centers for drawing the surface of models, and an assembly space. There are no conveyor belts or trolleys, as moving pieces of the car from the printers and onto the five-spindle machining centers can be done with a forklift, according to James Earle, a Local Motors advanced manufacturing engineer stationed at Oak Ridge.

The automaker will set up a small-scale plant, or "microfactory," near the current