Vickers Shipyard News Today

There has been much speculation that all of the Dolphin-Class boats have been refitted to carry missiles armed with nuclear weapons for the country to maintain a survivable second-strike option. Berlin has refused to comment on whether it had modified the Dolphin-class submarines delivered to Israel to fit cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads.

Also, David King's Garage Sale opens, GPAG will feature In This Together: Sunshine Coast Pride Exhibition in June, and Sir Mark Rylance will bring the Sunshine Coast Film Society’s spring season to a close with his appearance in Phantom of the Open.

More than extra 150 crimes were recorded in Barrow amid the backlash caused by Eleanor Williams Facebook post, a court has heard.

A LEGENDARY Barrow AFC goalkeeper who "lived and breathed football" is being remembered after his death aged 77.

A memorial mass is to be held for a man who died during the pandemic.

Harajuku is widely regarded as one of the centers of Tokyo’s fashionable youth culture with Takeshita-dori at its heart. As one strolls Takeshita-dori there is one intersection with a laneway where two crepe shops stand across the lane from each other and behind them a&#x2...

A proud author will publish a trilogy of books based in Barrow

An Ulverston man died as a result of industrial disease due to exposure to asbestos during his time working at the Barrow Shipyard, an inquest heard. Thomas McKenna died at the age of 77 at his home on Well Lane on December 6, 2020, as a result of malignant mesothelioma. The former Vickers Shipyard pipe-fitter and welder was a much-loved father to his five daughters, and died after a three-year battle with mesothelioma, the Coroners Court in Cockermouth heard. Tracy Robinson, one of Mr ...

A FORMER shipyard worker was pursuing a claim for asbestos exposure shortly before his death, an inquest heard. Patrick Joseph Loughran died at the age of 83 on October 4 last year a few months after receiving the diagnosis of malignant mesothelioma, the coroners court in Cockermouth was told. He died as a result of industrial disease due to asbestos exposure in Barrow Shipyard and the Ironworks, a coroner ruled. Mr Loughran had launched a claim for asbestos exposure from his time worki...