BAE cuts 1,775 jobs at UK yards

[Jimbuna]

The lions share of the cuts will be at Portsmouth where shipbuilding will cease despite £100 million for expansion.

Looks like Govan and Scotstoun will be the only shipbuilding areas of any real note in the future.

I wonder what will happen if Scotland vote for independence.

The arguments about Westminster trying to appease the Scots prior to the referendum should start soon.

BAE Systems is to cut 1,775 jobs at its yards in Scotland and England and end shipbuilding altogether at Portsmouth.
The firm said 940 staff posts and 170 agency workers will go at the Portsmouth site, which will retain repairs and maintenance work.
Some 835 jobs will be lost at yards in Govan and Scotstoun, on the River Clyde in Glasgow, and Rosyth in Fife and at the firm's Filton office, near Bristol.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotlan...-west-24831779