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05-Jul-2008 98 related
        

Aircraft carriers are a vital part of the Royal Navy's fleet Seven UK firms have won contracts totalling £91.5m to build parts for the Navy's two new aircraft carriers. Corus, based in Scunthorpe, will get £65m to provide steel for HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales. Five other English firms, in Dorset, Greater Manchester, Surrey, Suffolk and Lancashire, will build products ranging from control towers to landing aids. Scottish firm MacTaggart Scott & Co, in Mid Lothian, will get £13m to build aircraft lifts for the £3.2bn ships. On Thursday the Ministry of Defence (MoD) signed contracts to build the 919ft (280m) long carriers, the biggest in the UK's history. Each will be capable of carrying up to 40 planes and will eventually carry the new Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Peter Symonds, air operations manager for the... [read full story]                    

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Lie of the land unyielding for arable farmers across Scotland

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Published Date: 11 October 2008 DESPITE the ongoing problems with harvesting this year's wet barley and wheat crops, the thoughts of most arable farmers are already focused on the harvest of 2009. But even at this early stage...

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RICHARDS' PRAISE FOR CONDON

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By PA Sport Staff Nicky Richards was quick to hail new stable jockey Davy Condon after he steered Glingerbank to victory in the Champagne Lanson Handicap Chase at Carlisle. Condon, who switched to the Greystoke yard following...

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GODOLPHIN EXTEND WINNING RUN

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By Martin Kelly, PA Sport Godolphin made it six wins this week as Frankie Dettori scored aboard Bab Al Salam and Musleh, who were successful in their respective divisions of the GSE Group Maiden Stakes at Lingfield. The brace...

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Sound of the younger crowd

jpress.co.uk
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Schoolboy Michael Cutting got fed up with practising scales on the piano, especially as his teacher was his mum. So he decided he'd rather invent his own compositions. "I was 16 and a kind of a rebel. I just wanted to write my...

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