The former head of the civil service will lead a regeneration board tasked with the £200m transformation of a town. Simon ...

Former Cabinet Secretary appointed independent Chair of Barrow Delivery Board Barrow Transformation Fund backed by £200m ...

The Royal Navy has announced it is changing the name of a new submarine from HMS Agincourt to HMS Achilles, in a move branded "woke nonsense" by former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps. It follows ...

Britain's sixth of seven Astute-class submarines being built has officially been named Agamemnon at BAE Systems' Submarines site in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. She takes her name from the ...

As head of the civil service in the pandemic, Simon Case had one of the toughest jobs in Britain, now he's swapped London for ...

Discussions about renaming the submarine - which is being built in Barrow, Cumbria - started more than a year ago - while Shapps was still in office. One defence source suggested the King had ...

“Designed in the UK, built in the UK and supporting ... huge benefits to BAE Systems’ Submarines Academy for Skills and Knowledge, based at the Barrow-in-Furness site. Opened in 2018, the ...

The submarines will be built in Britain and Australia but use ... which includes building four new nuclear submarines in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, maintaining the UK's continuous at sea ...

"There's nowhere else in the country with the unique set of skills and supporting infrastructure required to deliver complex nuclear submarines ... need to be built in Barrow every year to ...