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	Rosyth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rosyth (pronounced Ross-sythe) (Scottish Gaelic: Ros Saoithe) is a large village located on the Firth of Forth on Scotland's east coast, a mile (1.6 km) south of Dunfermline, Fife, and approximately 12 miles (19 km) north west of Edinburgh.
		Today, the dockyard is almost 1,300 acres (5 km²) in size, a large proportion of which was reclaimed during construction.
		Rosyth's dockyards became the very first in the Royal Navy to be privatised when a company named Babcock International acquired the site in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosyth (541 words)

	Rosyth Dockyard - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rosyth Dockard is a large naval dockyard in Rosyth, Fife, Scotland, which today primarily undertakes refitting of Royal Navy surface vessels.
		Construction of the dockyard by civil engineers Easton, Gibb and Son commenced in 1909.
		In 1984 Rosyth was chosen as the sole location for refitting the Royal Navy's nuclear submarine (a role it was already specialising in), and in 1986 extensive rebuilding commenced to facilitate this new role.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosyth_Dockyard (258 words)

	Rosyth West & Dockyard (Fife) 13 th November 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Rosyth Dockyard part of the ward, which actually includes a fair number of houses, was until recently part of Gordon Brown's Dunfermline East constituency but is now in Dunfermline West which is held by Rachel Squire.
		Rosyth is sometimes referred to as a "Garden City" having been built on a English model to provide housing for dockyard workers.
		Rosyth is home to 7 scrapped nuclear subs which are set to remain there until well into the next millenium.
	www.alba.org.uk /localby/rosythw.html (498 words)

	Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee (RWMAC) \| DEFRA
		Rosyth is a privatised dockyard, located on the north shore of the Firth of Forth about 10 miles from Edinburgh, which, although used to refuel and refit UK nuclear submarines since the late 1960s, has never served as an operating base for nuclear powered submarines.
		In contrast to Devonport, therefore, submarine work at the Rosyth dockyard is being run down, although for the present, both its facilities and workforce remain in place.
		Rosyth is also used to a lesser extent than Devonport for surface ship work; the latter being the UK's primary operating base.
	www.defra.gov.uk /rwmac/reports/modwaste/18.htm (5913 words)

	Rosyth East (Fife) 9 th December 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Rosyth East is a typical safe Labour central belt ward which they should hold whatever happens: Just like neighbouring Rosyth West & Dockyard which they lost to the SNP's Douglas Chapman in 1997.
		If they can almost lose Rosyth East when they are standing at no less than 50 % in the latest System 3 poll for Westminster they may have to prepare themselves to lose a number of by-elections in critical areas where they are already under threat.
		The SNP will be happy with the 11.2 % increase in their vote at a time when they have seen their ratings slide over the past two months in the latest Holyrood polls as similar swing would put a large number of Labour wards within their grasp.
	www.alba.org.uk /localby/rosytheast.html (992 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Rosyth in hunt for repair of crash ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		ROSYTH Dockyard is aiming to secure a multi-million pound contract that would guarantee continuing work for its 2000 employees.
		Rosyth is also the temporary home for the HMS Invincible aircraft carrier which is also undergoing a refit.
		The other two dockyards considered to be in the race for the tender are the English yards at Devonport, in Plymouth, and Portsmouth.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=871702002 (661 words)

	Overview of Rosyth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The town of Rosyth was planned as a 'garden city' to house the workers and construction of the dockyard and naval base, which extends over 505 ha (1248 acres) of land (almost 19 ha / 48 acres of which are reclaimed), began in 1909.
		During the Cold War years after World War II the dockyard and its associated naval base were developed as a refitting centre for conventional and nuclear Polaris submarines as well as frigates, minesweepers, and offshore protection vessels.
		Rosyth, now an important ferry port linking Scotland with Europe, has a leisure centre, library, four primary schools and additional industries such as the manufacture of drilling equipment and weighing equipment located on the Primrose and Belleknowes industrial estates.
	www.geo.ed.ac.uk /scotgaz/towns/townfirst52.html (332 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		In January, it was announced that a new permanent HQ was to be built in Rosyth Dockyard at a cost of about £200,000, and would be completed by 1961.
		– HM Dockyard was established as the leading British dockyard in the nuclear field, and, in May, the first Polaris submarine to be refitted there was HMS Resolution.
		– HMS Repulse, the Polaris submarine, was locked in Rosyth Dockyard because of a strike there in May. In same month, Messrs Robert Nicol, men’s outfitters, High Street, Dunfermline, celebrated 125 years in business, and Messrs Hill of Fife, laundry company, reached their 75th anniversary, in Halbeath Road, Dunfermline.
	www.dunfermlinepress.com /bygone_dunfermline/1960_1975.htm (7480 words)

	BBC News \| SCOTLAND \| Rosyth bosses dismiss union fears
		Management at Rosyth Dockyard have clashed again with unions over allegations that they plan to run down the Fife operation.
		A mass meeting for the dockyard's 2200 staff was held on Friday, as was a clear-the-air meeting between unions and management.
		Mr Easton said: "The management at Babcock Rosyth Defence Limited continue to refute the allegation that there are secret plans to reduce the Rosyth facility to one dry dock.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/low/scotland/1172735.stm (809 words)

	Swiftsure class nuclear submarines
		Had previously been in Rosyth dockyard for several years on a very long refit and was rededicated in Jan 97.
		In refit at Rosyth Dockyard from August 94 to April 98, when it was rededicated, prior to returning to Faslane.
		The submarine was in Rosyth dockyard for a seven month Capability Update Period which ended in May 1998 when it returned to Faslane.
	www.banthebomb.org /archives/subs/swift.htm (1260 words)

	UK National Audit Office press notice - Ministry of Defence: Sales of the Royal Dockyards (3 June 1998)
		The Department sold the Dockyard at Devonport to Devonport Management Limited in March 1997, and sold Rosyth Dockyard to Babcock Rosyth Defence Limited in January 1997.
		At Rosyth, the Department are liable for redundancy costs to 2006 - they estimate that the net cost is likely to be £27 million although they expect to extinguish a liability which would have been £69 million.
		The Department have put in place, and are directly funding, five projects to ensure that dockyard facilities for submarines meet safety and other requirements, at a cost they estimate to be some £530 million.
	www.nao.org.uk /pn/9798748.htm (933 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Jobs relief as Rosyth dockyard wins two major contracts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		ROSYTH dockyard was celebrating today after winning a major contract to refit two warships, safeguarding hundreds of jobs.
		Raymond Duguid, chair of Rosyth Trade Unions, welcomed the announcement but insisted he would continue to fight for an inquiry into the unfair advantage given to English yards.
		Trade unions at Rosyth believe the Ministry of Defence has been subsidising dockyards at Devonport in Plymouth and to a lesser extent Portsmouth by paying their running costs.
	news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=827562004 (500 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Cancer alert for children born close to dockyard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		CHILDREN living close to the Rosyth dockyard have a higher incidence of cancer, a report has claimed.
		Rosyth, where nuclear submarines are stored, was the only new site identified by the report as potentially dangerous.
		And they would not say living close to Rosyth "genuinely confers a higher risk of leukaemia and NHL" as previous studies had not found the same trends.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=639702005 (689 words)

	Ark Royal Returns to Sea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		At the height of the refit 500 people were working aboard Ark Royal and after two years alongside at the Fife Dockyard, she will be missed by the workforce.
		Ark Royal's sistership, HMS Invincible (R05), is expected to arrive at Rosyth later this month in preparation for a smaller £50 million refit programme starting this November.
		Gordon Brown, whose Dunfermline East constituency includes Rosyth, paid tribute to those involved in the refit: "They have every reason to be very proud of the quality of their work and I am delighted they have won the contract to refit HMS Invincible on which work will start in November".
	www.btinternet.com /~warship/News/13july01.htm (404 words)

	ROSYTH DOCKYARD TO BE PRIVATISED
		MINISTRY OF DEFENCE 160/96 November 25, 1996 ROSYTH DOCKYARD TO BE PRIVATISED Rosyth Royal Dockyard in Scotland is to be sold to the Babcock International Group, James Arbuthnot, Minister of State for Defence Procurement, said today.
		Privatisation is the best way forward for the taxpayer, and offers Babcock and its employees the prospect of a secure long term future, he said.
		In answer to a parliamentary question from Peter Temple-Morris MP (Leominster), Mr Arbuthnot said: "Since the announcement in October 1993 of the Government's intention to sell the Royal Dockyards, a series of separate negotiations has been conducted with Babcock International Group for the proposed sale of Rosyth Royal Dockyard PLC.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/library/news/uk/961125-uk.htm (306 words)

	Courier News Story
		FIRE CREWS were called to Rosyth dockyard after halon gas escaped from a cylinder on HMS Edinburgh yesterday.
		Two appliances from Rosyth and two from Dunfermline rushed to the dockyard shortly before 10 am and were involved in ventilating the engine compartment where the leak occurred.
		As a CFC, it contributes to the depletion of the ozone layer.
	www.thecourier.co.uk /output/2005/05/11/newsstory7117465t0.asp (180 words)

	Ferry fears as nuclear subs poison shore - [Sunday Herald]
		The shoreline close to the new ferry terminal used by thousands of families at Rosyth is contaminated with radioactive waste from nuclear submarines, the Sunday Herald can reveal.
		ItÊfollowsÊtwoÊotherÊrecent radiation leaks at the Rosyth dockyard, which is beginning a massiveÊclean-upÊofÊthe contaminationÊleftÊbyÊthree decadesÊofÊworkingÊwith nuclear submarines.
		NickÊParish,ÊBabcock's radiation protection adviser at Rosyth, said that the cobalt 60 contamination came from a spill in 1988.
	www.sundayherald.com /27940 (917 words)

	Newsroom \| Releases/Statements \| Archive \| 1997 \| 'SEPA Issues Variation Notice To Rosyth Royal Dockyard'
		SEPA has issued a variation notice to Rosyth Royal Dockyard which changes the limits in the Company's authorisation to dispose of liquid radioactive waste by pipeline into the Firth of Forth.
		It is this behaviour coupled with both the pathways by which people might come into contact with these substances and the radiological effects that accounts for the large difference in radiological significance.
		It must be stressed that even though cobalt-60 is the most radiologically significant radionuclide in Rosyth effluent, the environmental and radiological impact of discharges of this radionuclide from Rosyth are extremely small.
	www.sepa.org.uk /news/releases/1997/sepapr4697.htm (518 words)

	Observer \| Rosyth favourite for Thales
		Thales, the French-owned defence group, is to make a significant commitment to the Rosyth Naval Dockyard in an attempt to boost its chances of winning the £10 billion competition to build and maintain two new aircraft carriers for the Royal Navy.
		Both BAE and Thales are proposing to build the giant 50,000 tonne ships in 'super blocks' at dockyards around the country, before final assembly at one yard.
		However, sources indicated that the Rosyth dockyard would not only be chosen for final assembly, but is also likely to get work on the construction of super blocks.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4563142-102271,00.html (278 words)

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		The town of Rosyth was planned as a 'garden city' to house the workers and construction of the dockyard and naval base, which extends over 1,248 acres of reclaimed land, began in 1909.
		Babcock International, which had taken over management of the facility in 1987, acquired it in 1997, making the Rosyth Royal Dockyard the first privatised dockyard in Britain.
		Rosyth has a leisure centre, library, three primary schools and additional industries such as the manufacture of drilling equipment and weighing equipment located on the Primrose and Belleknowes industrial estates.
	www.icruise.com /cruise_content/port_Rosyth.htm (299 words)

	Courier News Story
		JUST WEEKS after winning the £20 million contract to refit HMS Ark Royal, bosses at Rosyth Dockyard in Fife have confirmed that 320 more jobs are to be lost.
		Babcock, the private company that owns the dockyard, said there just wasn’t enough work available and it had to slash its workforce to just 1200 to remain competitive.
		One MSP described the dockyard’s situation as “precarious” and said it was “touch and go” as to whether Babcock could retain the core skills it needed.
	www.thecourier.co.uk /output/2005/03/21/newsstory6933414t0.asp (683 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| BAE Systems wins carrier deal
		The vessels will be built in several sections before bringing them together for final assembly at the Rosyth shipyard.
		There had been speculation that BAE Systems might not get the deal because of its history of cost overruns and technical problems with previous defence contracts.
		Bill Morris, general secretary of the Transport & General Workers Union, said: "This is good news for British industry and a vote of confidence by the government in British manufacturing.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/2706727.stm (681 words)

	HSE reports on decommissioning of Rosyth yard: News from HSE Health and Safety Executive
		The Rosyth Dockyard comprises a nuclear licensed site and a non-licensed site, both of which contain facilities used to support the refitting and maintenance of nuclear powered submarines.
		Key findings of the review include: overall, HSE considers RRD's strategy to be generally comprehensive and appropriate at this time; and RRD's approach of prompt decommissioning and planned de-licensing by end of 2009 of all areas of the site, excluding a waste store, is consistent with HSE expectations.
		However, RRD's strategy involves maintaining an operational store at Rosyth until 2030 to support storage and treatment for disposal of radioactive wastes.
	www.industrialsafetytalk.com /news/hea/hea130.html (554 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Two thousand Dockyard workers rally in Princes Street Gardens on Friday to press their case.
		Lexmark to develop a 44-acre site at Rosyth, at a cost of £26m, to produce printer cartridges; 500 jobs in prospect.
		Nuclear submarine HMS Sceptre to be refitted at Dockyard, at a cost of £120m.
	www.dunfermlinepress.com /bygone_dunfermline/1991_1997.htm (7041 words)

	Knowhere Contacts UK: Rosyth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During the construction of the dockyard a small township called Tin Town was built for the workers.
		Dollytown was built in 1942 to house the dockyard workers and was progressively demolished in the 1970's.
		For those of you that don't know Rosyth, the Goth is the local dive down by the Palace where Kenny probably gets his arse kicked every week for banging on the doors before opening time begging for last nights slop.
	www.knowhere.co.uk /board/kb3887/threads.html?start=0 (2787 words)

	Dunfermline Web - Portal System
		He is telling us that the proposed new aircraft carriers are being assembled in Rosyth Dockyard and that Lauder College are training 400 or so new apprentices for this work.
		The truth is at the moment that a decision to build these aircraft carriers has not yet been taken and will not be decided untill 2007.
		Therefore to say that he is bringing lots of work to Rosyth is rubbish simply because he does not know if the carriers will even be built.
	www.dunfermlineweb.com /cgi-bin/port/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=159 (628 words)

	Rosyth dockyard to be sold
		THE Royal Navy dockyard at Rosyth is to be sold to the company which runs it for the Ministry of Defence, Michael Portillo, the Defence Secretary, said yesterday.
		He told Scottish MPs that negotiations with Babcock International, commercial managers of the yard since 1987, had been concluded and the sale would be finalised before Christmas.
		Brian Negus, a union spokesman, said: "It is a good day for Rosyth.
	telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/11/26/nros26.html (269 words)

	Naval Technology - HMS Illustrious sails into Rosyth Dockyard for the start of refit in October 2002. HMS Invincible ...
		Naval Technology - HMS Illustrious sails into Rosyth Dockyard for the start of refit in October 2002.
		HMS Invincible can be seen in the background.
		HMS Illustrious sails into Rosyth Dockyard for the start of refit in October 2002.
	www.naval-technology.com /projects/invincible/invincible13.html (72 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Heath and Safety Executive (HSE) has published a report on its review of the decommissioning strategy for Rosyth Royal Dockyard Ltd (RRD) nuclear licensed site showing that HSE considers RRD's strategy to be generally comprehensive and appropriate.
		· However, RRD's strategy involves maintaining an operational tore at Rosyth until 2030 to support storage and treatment for disposal of radioactive wastes.
		'Rosyth Royal Dockyard Ltd's strategy for decommissioning the Rosyth nuclear licensed site: A review by HM Nuclear Installations Inspectorate' is available on HSE's web site at: www.hse.gov.uk/nsd/rosythqqr.pdf
	www.eurohs.eu.com /front-end/printer-friendly.php?newsid=2866 (311 words)

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