BAe to lose 2,000 jobs

Over the next three years, 1,400 jobs are to go at its military aerospace business, 375 at maritime services and 150 at its cyber-intelligence business.

BAE aims to achieve the cuts through voluntary redundancies where possible.

The company employs 83,100 people worldwide, including 34,600 in the UK.
Warton and Samlesbury will see 750 job losses and Brough will lose 400.

340 dockyard job cuts are going in Portsmouth, 245 at the RAF bases at Marham in Norfolk and Leeming in North Yorkshire, and 150 in London, Guildford and at other cyber-intelligence sites.

There are to be a further 30 job losses at other UK locations.