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18/04/2008
£1K REWARD OFFER FOR BAE WORKERS

BAE workers are being offered a £1,000 bounty if they introduce people with vital skills to the yard.


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17/04/2008
Scottish Inquiry - Shipbuilding - Royal Academy of Engineering Views

The Royal Academy of Engineering is pleased to respond to the Scottish Affairs Committee's inquiry into 'Employment and Skills for the Defence Industry in Scotland '. This response has been collated from the views of a number of Fellows of the Academy, all of whom have experience in defence, shipbuilding or Scottish affairs. The Academy would be happy to provide further information on any of the points raised if the committee felt that this would be helpful to their inquiry.


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15/04/2008
Naming of the next Royal Navy Submarine class

Petition the Prime Minister to recognise the contribution made by Barrow in Furness to the RN Submarine service through the naming of the next submarine class.


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14/04/2008
UK to scrap two-year defence budgets

The government is poised to scrap one of its own policy reforms in a move that risks alienating Britain’s defence industry and could lead to fresh delays in big military contracts.


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14/04/2008
HMS Torbay Top Uk Submarine Back in Action

It is the Royal Navy's nuclear-powered attack submarine, HMS Torbay.Which is returning to the Fleet following a year-long £8M refit at HM Naval Base Clyde, Faslane, which has equipped her to be the most powerful boat in the fleet.


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09/04/2008
Tomahawk Block IV makes early operational entrance

The UK Royal Navy (RN) has declared the submarine-launched Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile operational three months ahead of its original programme schedule.


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08/04/2008
BUYER FOR WARSHIPS

THREE ships that came sailing by Cumbria and stopped in Barrow on a care and maintenance contract might have found a buyer.


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07/04/2008
British Sub Returns to Fleet With Latest Tomahawk

Britain's Royal Navy has declared the latest version of the Tomahawk land attack missile operational onboard the newly uprated nuclear-powered submarine HMS Torbay.


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01/04/2008
BAE and VT target £100m savings

Cost-saving proposals worth an estimated £100m have been made by BAE Systems and VT, the defence and support services group, to the Defence ministry in an attempt to head off further delays to the £3.9bn contract for two aircraft carriers


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01/04/2008
MoD hands over Royal Navy project to BAE to bypass £700m tax

The Ministry of Defence will reluctantly hand control of a project to build two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy to BAE Systems in an attempt to avoid a £700 million tax bill


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