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Thursday, December 09, 2010

Does Plymouth really need submarine scrapyard work?

Trafalgar-class submarineThe Navy needs to dismantle its old nuclear submarines. The work will be done in Devonport or at Rosyth in Scotland. Political Reporter Keith Rossiter asks whether it’s right for Plymouth.

Scrapping the Navy's 27 nuclear submarines would provide work for at least 30 years. Eighteen of the submarines are already decommissioned and stored at Devonport and Rosyth.

The work could be seen as a consolation prize for Plymouth, which is likely to lose all but one of its surface ships in the wake of the Strategic Defence and Security Review.

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