COACHLOADS of East Lancashire workers joined more than 2,000 British Aerospace employees for a mass lobby of Parliament to protest over feared job losses.
About 200 staff from Samlesbury and Preston joined 11 shop stewards from Blackburn Royal Ordnance who travelled to London.
They were promised by Blackburn MP Jack Straw that he would seek an assurance about future investment plans.
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