Governor Bentley headed to Europe

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Alabama's governor will be spending the Fourth of July in Europe.

Gov. Robert Bentley's press secretary, Jennifer Ardis, said he was leaving Tuesday evening for Hamburg, Germany, where he will visit an Airbus assembly plant. She said the trip resulted from Airbus announcing Monday that it will build a $600 million assembly plant in Mobile that will employ 1,000 people.

His schedule calls for him to leave Germany on July 7 to attend the Farnborough International Air Show near London. He will be joined in England by many other state and local officials who are trying to recruit business as a result of the Airbus announcement. Bentley plans to return to Alabama on July 11.