SCOTTISH firms in fields such as engineering could be given a trading boost after a Japanese corporation's move to breathe fresh life into plans to build new nuclear power stations south of the Border.
Peter Hughes, chief executive of Scottish Engineering, said sector players could be big beneficiaries of Hitachi's £700 million deal to take over the Horizon project to build up to six plants for German utilities E.ON and RWE.
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