An extra 248 jobs are being cut at shipbuilder Cammell Laird by receivers.
The troubled Merseyside-based company is already shedding 320 jobs with the closure of its Teesside yard.
Receivers PricewaterhouseCoopers, which took over the firm last month, is making the new job cuts on Tyneside and Birkenhead, Liverpool, because there is insufficient work for staff.
The group aims to sell on the long-established shipbuilder as a going concern.
Updated: 16.42 Wednesday, May 16
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