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Article: Murphy says new deal will keep Clyde working for next 15 years
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- July 3, 2009
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AN AGREEMENT to be signed within weeks will help ensure defence
work for the Clyde for the next 15 years, Scottish Secretary Jim
Murphy has claimed.
With fears over the future of two of the Clyde's last remaining
shipbuilding yards, Mr Murphy announced yesterday that their futures
may be secured with work on a new generation of frigates.
A secret memo that emerged this week raised concerns that once
the giant aircraft carrier contract came to an end in 2014, warship
builder BVT's Scotstoun yard in Glasgow could close due to a lack of
orders.
And there are worries too about BVT's Govan yard. Between them,
the two yards have a dependent workforce of 4,000.
However, after a meeting with BVT ...