CEEFAX 1 108 Thu 17 Sep 17:55/16 ************ ************************** * *** *** ** ************** ************ ************** JOBS AXED AS VICKERS SHUTS TANK FACTORY Defence company Vickers has announced the loss of nearly 700 British jobs. The cuts will follow the closure of a tank factory in Leeds, with production of the Challenger 2 tank concentrated in Newcastle. Some 450 jobs will go in Leeds and 200 in Newcastle, with a further 50 redundancies in Wolverhampton. The firm says a £1.5bn order for the Challenger 2 ends in 2001, with work slowing down next year. Ceefax City headlines BBC2 200 Tories suspicious over decisison 109
