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| Aircraft carriers cost rises by at least £1bn |
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The firms building the Royal Navy's two new aircraft carriers say the cost has risen by at least £1bn and possibly almost £2bn |
| BBC News Thu 28 Apr |
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| Newton Aycliffe train factory will create 500 jobs |
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At least 500 new jobs will be created in County Durham under plans to build a new generation of inter-city trains. |
| BBC News Wed 2 Mar |
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| Nautilus awarded underwater mining permit |
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The first ever underwater copper-gold mining operation has taken a big step towards becoming a reality. |
| Canada.com Mon 17 Jan |
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| Work to continue on UK's new aircraft carriers |
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Clyde shipyard workers today got back to building Britain’s biggest warships after confirmation that the £5.2 billion aircraft carrier programme would escape the budget cuts. |
| Eveningtimes Wed 20 Oct |
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| Cammell Laird wins £44m MOD warship contract |
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A shipbuilding firm in Wirral has secured a £44m contract to build part of one of the biggest and most powerful warships in the UK. |
| BBC News Mon 25 Jan |
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| Shipbuilder wins 15-year contract |
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The Ministry of Defence has guaranteed shipbuilding work for the next 15 years to BVT, which operates shipyards on the Clyde and in Portsmouth. |
| BBC News Tue 21 Jul |
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| Navy carriers '£1bn over budget' |
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A £1bn cost over-run is threatening the future of the publicly-funded project to build Britain's biggest aircraft carriers |
| BBC News Mon 29 Jun |
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| NDT Inspector fakes report on nuclear submarine welds |
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Thousands of welds on nuclear submarines may need to be retested after an NDT Inspector was caught last month, signing off joints that he had not tested. |
| NDTCabin Mon 8 Jun |
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| World to dump ‘toxic ships’ on Britain |
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Britain is to become a dumping ground for the world’s 'toxic ships' after the Environment Agency (EA) granted permission for the break-up of a notorious contaminated vessel. |
| Times Online Sun 1 Feb |
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| VT Group to quit shipbuilding business |
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VT Group is to quit shipbuilding with the sale of its naval operations to BAE Systems. |
| Times Online Wed 28 Jan |
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| Two aircraft carriers delayed for two years |
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Two major aircraft carriers designed to boost Britain's world standing will be delayed for two years. |
| Telegraph Thur 11 Dec |
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| BVT chairman John Parker says shipbuilder can be a world-beater |
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The joint venture uniting naval yards owned by BAE Systems and VT Group hopes to expand beyond its £4 billion aircraft carrier contract |
| Times Online Sun 27 Jul |
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| £3.2bn giant carrier deals signed |
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The Ministry of Defence has signed contracts worth £3.2bn to build the UK's biggest ever aircraft carriers. |
| BBC News Thu 3 Jul |
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| BAE Systems and VT Group finally agree aircraft carriers link-up |
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BAE SYSTEMS and VT Group will this week formally seal a joint venture to build two Royal Navy aircraft carriers that has been nearly two years in the making. |
| Times Online Sun 29 Jun |
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| VT Group and BAE Systems agree merger to build warships |
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Tens of thousands of British shipbuilding jobs have been secured and a further thousand created, after the two main Navy warship builders agreed to merge their businesses and create one single national shipbuilding firm. |
| Times Online Wed 11 Jun |
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| Inadequate NDT partly to blame for boiler explosion |
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The failure to carry out NDT on a ships boiler with a history of cracking was one of the causes behind its explosive rupture and the subsequent deaths of 8 crew members. |
| NDTCabin Mon 26 May |
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| MoD ready to sign £3.9bn deal for two new aircraft carriers |
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Doubts over the Government's plan to order two 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers were lifted yesterday when the Ministry of Defence announced that it was ready to sign the £3.9 billion contract. |
| Times Online Wed 21 May |
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| Navy reviewing welding plan for subs |
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In 2007, Northrop acknowledged problems with a welding procedure that led to an investigation of many vessels. |
| Dailypress.com May 08 |
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| Tyneside yard to convert floating accommodation vessel |
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A&P's Hebburn yard is to convert a former Russian Navy vessel into a floating accommodation vessel with ice breaker capability. |
| NDTCabin Thu 17 Apr |
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| Cheap rivets blamed for massive loss of life as 'Titanic' sank |
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The Titanic might have gone down more slowly and more of its passengers could have been rescued if the shipyard that built it, Harland & Wolff in Northern Ireland, had not skimped on the quality of the rivets. |
| Independent Wed 16 Apr |
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