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'Steel cut' for aircraft carriers

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The Princess Royal has cut the first steel for Britain's biggest new warship to mark the start of construction work. She performed the "steel cut" on the main hull of the HMS Queen Elizabeth at the BVT shipyard in Govan.

Hayley Millar reports.

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