BAe Systems is shutting four sites and considering closing a fifth.
Avionics sites at York; Ilford, Essex; Blackburn, Lancashire and an operation in Edinburgh, Scotland, will close.
A question mark still hangs over the Govan shipyard, on the Clyde.
The Daily Telegraph 10/06/00 page 1, page 37
Financial Times 10/06/00 page 1
The Times 10/06/00 page 28
The Independent 10/06/00 page 20
The Guardian 10/06/00 page 28
