Defence firm BAE Systems will start consultations today over plans to cut 620 jobs across the UK and close its site in Newcastle by the end of 2013.
BAE Systems currently employs 360 people at its site in Newcastle to make Terrier armoured vehicles. With the company’s contract to supply the Ministry of Defence set to expire at the end of 2013, there is no pipeline for any more armoured land vehicles to be produced with the UK staging a withdrawal from Iraq…
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