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Jobs boost for Rosyth docks after aircraft carriers deal signed



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Published Date: 03 July 2008
A DEAL which would see Rosyth help construct two of the largest ever aircraft carriers built in the UK will be signed today.
The contract, which will create hundreds of jobs at the dock, has been in the pipeline for some time.

But the Ministry of Defence is finally expected to seal the deal today.

The massive vessels, which will be able to carry 40 planes, are expected to be ready by 2016. Work will also take place on the carriers at the Govan shipyard in Glasgow and in locations down south. It is understood the final phase of work will be carried out at Rosyth.

The ships will be used in both humanitarian missions and to position aircraft for possible strikes and are seen as vital to the future of the UK forces. Each vessel will be crewed by 1450 sailors and airmen, and will be three times the size of current carriers.

There had been question marks over the deal with BAE Systems and VT Group, and defence secretary Des Browne wrote to them guaranteeing that the MoD would sign a contract for the £3.8 billion agreement.

The two super-carriers – the Queen Elizabeth and the Prince of Wales – are to be built as part of the project, which has been in the pipeline for several years.





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  • Last Updated: 03 July 2008 11:06 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Mercutio,

FALKIRK 03/07/2008 14:18:01
The "Union Dividend" maybe? No comments fro the drones, strange!
2

Bishop Boyne,

Loanhead 03/07/2008 14:49:16
One strike from a russian made sea skimmimg missile will put paid to this strategy!

3

the_figures_are _fudged,

Galashiels 03/07/2008 15:05:49
Here is a comment from a drone Mercutio.

These carrier contracts are the very same ones that Brown threatened to send elswhere because of a spat with the SNP.

Now that it looks like they are headed for defeat in the Glasgow East by-election where unemployment is out of control, illiteracy around 50% (education education education anyone ?) and life expectancy on a par with 3rd world countries......

Oh look all of a sudden Labour rethinks its not so thinly veiled threats and awards the contract to Govan and Rosyth.

In short, Union Dividend my backside, after years of neglecting constituencies like Glasgow East they throw crumbs to the electorate in the hope of saving their own bacon.
4

Brian the Barbarian.,

rosyth 03/07/2008 15:09:39
is this carrier "the prince of Whales" named after that gormless Tw*t that wishes he was old bag Camilla's tampon and who does not pay tax on his farm like the rest of us and who has two giant ears and has only one o level to his name and who is gonna be our king one day so we have to grovell before him ?
5

noswod,

London 03/07/2008 21:48:52
Many thanks to the nice folk over the border for subsidising our Shipbuilding and Engineering by about £2bn. What I say is may the Scottish dependency economy continue for many many centuries after all since Darien we all have become quite used to the free money from the South. Please don,t tell the folk down there about the free perscriptions, free old folks homes, free student grants and fees, free advanced drugs to counteract the effects of the cancer caught from diet, fags, booze and of course the recreational drugs.

 

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