Shipyard jobs may be saved

BAE Systems is reported to have put back moves to make 100 drawing office jobs redundant following discussion between management and the Ministry of Defence about packages of work to absorb some of the slack.

The UK shipbuilder has been highlighting to the MoD the danger that more of Barrow?s unique submarine design capability could be lost because of work shortages as design work on the first Astute class nuclear submarines begins to run down.