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

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 ...

HMS Agincourt has been renamed Achilles amid reports the defence ministry did not want to offend France.

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

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 ...

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 ...

Once built, the UK will have seven ... a visit to defence giant BAE Systems' shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria. He will say the Astute submarine - which will complete the Royal Navy's ...

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 had previously been suggestions it could be named Ajax. The submarine is being built at the BAE Systems shipyard in Barrow A Navy statement said the name change had been under discussion for ...

"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 ...