British aerospace company Rolls-Royce is to cut about 320 jobs at its Bristol and Derby plants, according to the workers' union, Unite.

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British aerospace company Rolls-Royce has reported a higher-than-expected rise in full-year profits.

BBC: Rolls-Royce profits and revenues rise

British Aerospace is one company making some headway towards this with the method it uses to design fighter aircraft.

ECONOMIST: Manufacturing technology

Indeed, the U.K. government's recent intervention in a corruption investigation against British defense and aerospace company BAE Systems seems to affirm the weakness of its anti-corruption apparatus and its political commitment to enforce those laws.

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In the mid-1980s Oman signed a contract with British Aerospace (as the company was then known) to buy eight Tornado aircraft.

ECONOMIST: Oman preserves friendly ties with both Iran and the West

This concerns the privatisation of Italy's Alenia aerospace company: it has to choose between a Franco-German partner and a British one.

ECONOMIST: The defence industry

It has been forced to cede ground on this to its partners, British Aerospace and Dasa, which both want factories working on Airbus planes to be owned and run by the new company, even though the wings, tails and cockpits have to be flown around Europe in a specially converted aeroplane, known as the Beluga, before final assembly.

ECONOMIST: European aerospace

His visit to Egypt was a hastily arranged affair, bolted on to the start of a long-planned commercial tour of Gulf Arab allies and made in the company of a plane-load of British business chiefs, among them the representatives of eight defence and aerospace firms, prompting press headlines at home about Mr Cameron preaching peace in the company of arms-dealers.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot