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Frigate factory plans released

GLASGOW would reap the benefit of hundreds of millions of pounds investment if a new ‘frigate factory’ is built at Scotstoun, it was claimed. But it would signal the end of shipbuilding in Govan.

Glasgow MP John Robertson was the first major Westminster figure to back the scheme - and the first to begin hinting at the sheer scale of work that will be needed north of the river.

The Labour MP’s remarks came after BAE Systems, which runs both Scotstoun and Govan yards, entered formal planning consultations on two options for building a new generation of frigates, Type 26, for the MoD.

The first is to build the so-called Global Combat Ships across both Clyde yards. The second was to focus entirely on upgrading Scotstoun.

A man snoozes on a bench in the Winter Gardens in Glasgow in 1992

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