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Thursday, June 07, 2012

Government set for U-turn on aircraft carrier

Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carrierThe government is set to perform another U-turn in the Royal Navy’s £6bn aircraft carrier programme.

The News understands the coalition’s plan to mothball one of the 65,000-tonne warships is to be scrapped.

Instead, both HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales will enter operational service in Portsmouth later this decade – as was originally planned by the former Labour government.

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