Controversial claims that the Westcountry's historic naval base is to close in five years have been dismissed as "ill-informed" and "inaccurate" by the commander of the Plymouth facility.
With the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) backing, Commodore Simon Lister yesterday moved to "allay public concerns" by insisting that the Government had no plans to shut Devonport, Britain's oldest naval base.
He condemned claims made by senior defence sources that the city's nuclear capabilities were soon to be "irrelevant", and pointed to a workload at the naval base and neighbouring dockyard that could stretch to the end of the next decade and beyond.
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