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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Singapore Asia Pacific World Search Search: Anger as major British train deal goes to Japan AFP - Saturday, February 14 LONDON (AFP) - - A British decision to award a 7.5 billion pound (10.9 billion dollar, 8.4 billion euro) order for trains to a Japanese-led group sparked anger Friday amid rising unemployment and recession here. ADVERTISEMENT Agility Trains, a consortium including Japan's Hitachi, Britain's John Laing and Barclays banking group, was awarded the contract on Thursday for a fleet of "super express" trains for the Great Western and East Coast main lines. It beat rival group Express Rail Alliance, comprising Bombardier Transportation, Siemens, Angel Trains and Babcock & Brown, which said it was "extremely disappointed" after spending 18 months on its bid. "Fury as Japan gets our jobs," ran the front-page headline of the Daily Express, which highlighted the contrast with Prime Minister Gordon Brown's controversial pledge to protect "British jobs for British workers." Agility Trains said it would spend 70 percent of the contract value in Britain, and create some 2,500 jobs here -- and Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon said some 12,500 new jobs will be created. But critics and the media questioned the figures, and voiced concern that a large part of the work will be carried out in at a Hitachi factory in Kasado, Japan. "If Japan can manage to ensure the high-speed fleet that operates on its own railways are manufactured entirely at home, there is no earthly reason why Britain cannot either," said Bob Crow of the Rail Maritime and Transport union. "This is a crass decision which gives the Japanese an opportunity of getting into the UK market," said lawmaker Bob Laxton, whose Derby constituency in northern England is home to a Bombardier factory employing 2,000 workers. "I don't believe for one moment the figure of 12,500 jobs because work will be brought into the UK from overseas," he added. The new fleet of Hitachi trains will provide more seats and are three times more reliable than existing fleets, according to the consortium which will build and maintain them. And not all commentators were critical of Japanese involvement in providing trains which will replacing existing 20 to 30-year-old high speed trains on Britain's network. "Passengers rejoice! Because this bullet is simply the best," said a commentary in the Times, in reference to Japan's world-famous "Shinkansen" bullet trains. "This is a moment to savour. Britain's rail passengers will soon be travelling on not the cheapest, tattiest trains, but the best," it added. The announcement of the deal comes after a wave of recent wildcat strikes across Britain, mainly at oil refineries and power plants, in protest over the use of foreign labour. The government has faced pressure to do more to defend the country's workers, with critics in particular highlighting the "British jobs for British workers" slogan used in 2007, when Brown succeeded Tony Blair as premier. Britain's long-booming economy, more heavily dependent on the finance sector than its European neighbours, sank into a recession in the second half of 2008. Official data meanwhile showed this week that the country's jobless total was fast approaching two million. The number of people claiming jobless benefits leapt by 146,000 in the three months to December to 1.97 million, the highest figure since 1997. Email Story IM Story Printable View Blog This Recommend this article Average (0 votes) Sign in to recommend this article » Most Recommended Stories » Related Articles: Business Indonesia's Niaga says not as badly hit as other banksReuters - 47 minutes ago Russia budget gap to be less than UK's -KudrinReuters - 52 minutes ago China's Sanyuan to bid for bankrupt milk group assetsReuters - 1 hour 15 minutes ago Rio Tinto stakeholder wary about Chinalco deal-WSJReuters - 2 hours 20 minutes ago Congress sends $787 billion stimulus to ObamaReuters - Saturday, February 14 Enlarge Photo Anger as major British train deal goes to Japan Related Photos Slideshow Full Photo Coverage: Business & Economy Most Popular – Business Viewed Family income linked to child language skills: study Dozens feared dead in US plane crash US scientists defend Darwin from attacks on evolution Merrill bonuses made 696 millionaires: probe Economic crisis picture wins World Press Photo award View Complete List » Search: Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Copyright © 2009 Yahoo! Southeast Asia Pte Ltd. (Co. Reg. No. 199700735D). All Rights Reserved. Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Community - Intellectual Property Rights Policy - Help

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