The Scotsman cartoon: Shipbuilding

BAE Systems is to axe 1,775 jobs across its naval ships business and end shipbuilding at one the country’s most historic yards.

The firm said 940 jobs will be lost in Portsmouth, on the south coast, and a further 835 in Glasgow, Rosyth and Filton, near Bristol. Shipbuilding operations will end in Portsmouth in the second half of next year, but an engineering team will be retained to support the new Type 26 warships, which will be built in Glasgow.

Illustration by Brian Adcock