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Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Hutton defends decision for £20bn Trident project

FURNESS MP and Defence Secretary John Hutton has defended the government’s decision to set the £20bn Trident replacement programme in motion.

The Vanguard class submarines need replacing in the 2020sThe project would see Barrow build up to four big submarines to replace the four Vanguard ones now in service.

That would guarantee work for the town’s shipyard up to around the year 2030.

But a group of former defence chiefs and generals led by former head of the armed forces, Field Marshal Lord Bramall, has claimed that Trident is an irrelevant hangover weapon from the Cold War.

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