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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Larry Elliott

RARE PHOTOS: Ten years after the no vote can scotland engineer a case for independence - The Real Truth

Workers in a big shed in a shipyard surround the half built hull of a wartship
A ceremony to mark the start of work on the Royal Navy frigate HMS Active at Rosyth dockyard in January. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Rosyth dockyard lies just upstream of the three bridges – two road and one rail – that span the Firth of Forth. But on a September morning it is impossible to see the river through the thick early mist that blankets central Scotland.

Here, on the northern bank of the Forth, the 2,500 workers at defence and aerospace company Babcock International are hard at work building the first two of five Type 31 frigates for the Royal Navy.

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