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Scottish Chambers plea for Clyde shipbuilding

The chairman of Scottish Chambers of Commerce has urged the Westminster Government not to cut defence spending in Scotland, amid fears that Clyde shipbuilding could be devastated by the axing or scaling-back of the £5.2 billion aircraft carrier project.

Mike Salter told an audience of nearly 500 people at the business organisation’s annual dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Glasgow last night that the economic impact of defence spending in Scotland was “immense”.