SEVENTY British Aerospace Lostock workers who faced redundancy next year will be told this week that their jobs are safe.

But it will be a case of "first the good news, now the bad."

For on Thursday, the company will also tell more than 200 other workers that their jobs cannot be saved and bosses will name who has to go.

A total of around 300 jobs were expected to go next year in the latest round of the 570 jobs axe announced by the company last March.

Today a BAe spokesman said: "The situation is slightly better than we anticipated but that does not detract from the fact that 200 jobs will go."

If the full round of redundancies had gone ahead it would have left only 370 workers at the factory which once employed 3,500.

Now, the company says it is confident it will be able to maintain a workforce of around 440.

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