Extra funding leads to new jobs

A total of 20 new jobs will be created in Dundee

Three companies in Dundee have been awarded a total of £385,000 in Scottish government grants to safeguard jobs and create new ones.

IRT Surveys, which carries out thermal imaging, will be able to employ 15 more people with its £170,000.

Door manufacturer, McTavish Ramsay and Company, has been given £185,000 which means it can take on two extra staff and protect the jobs of 22 people.

Tayside Aviation has been given £30,000 to help create three new posts.

The firm provides pilot training courses.

'Funding success'

The money has come from the government's Regional Selective Assistance fund, the main national scheme of financial help to industry.

Councillor Dave Bowes welcomed the awarding of the grants.

He said: "I congratulate these local businesses on their funding success and enterprise which will add 20 new jobs and safeguard 22 in Dundee's hard-pressed manufacturing sector."

The city has been hit by a series of job losses recently.

Earlier this year it was announced that the Lomax Mobility wheelchair manufacturing plant was to close with the loss of 95 posts.

In December, the Wood Group announced that it would be closing its Dundee gas turbine plant and 150 jobs would go.