View details and apply for this Alliance Programme Manager - Local Authority vacancy in Exeter. Role : Alliance Programme Manager REF 378046 Contract Length : Until 08/11/27 Location : Exeter or Winfrith IR35 : Inside Pay Rate to Intermediary : £500-£600 per day Security...

Winfrith, 17 September 2026 ### Key points * TKMS Atlas UK, the British subsidiary of the Kiel naval group, said on 17 September that the Ministry of Defence has awarded it the Next Generation Countermeasure contract, "a key element" of the Royal Navy's Underwater Defensive Aids Suite programme * The work is a torpedo countermeasure system for "current and future Royal Navy submarine platforms", delivered by spiral development so that it can be upgraded in service * Babcock brings countermeasure launcher technology, platform integration and through-life support, after more than three years of joint research with the company before the award; the programme supports 80 jobs in the United Kingdom * The company does not disclose the value and gives no in-service date; the ministry's April 2024 procurement notice estimated the requirement at about GBP 35 million, running from October 2025 to October 2032 The system that is meant to keep a British nuclear submarine alive against an incoming torpedo will come from the UK arm of a German shipbuilder, under a contract whose price the winner treats as confidential and the buyer estimated in public two years ago. No product is named, and none of the announcements says what the new system replaces. Antoni Mazur, the company's managing director, said the award "reflects our longstanding role as the UK's trusted provider of torpedo countermeasure research and development"; Chris Bamforth, the ministry's head of submarine combat systems, offered congratulations and no detail. The 2024 notice, as trade press reported it, asked for trials and testing, combat-system integration, training analysis and post-design services, and framed the platforms as the current Astute class or the future SSN-AUKUS. **At an estimated GBP 35 million over seven years this is a small contract, and its value to TKMS is the position it buys: the defensive suite of SSN-AUKUS, a class whose combat system Britain shares with Australia and will support for half a century.** Spiral development is the operative phrase. A countermeasure fielded incrementally is never finished, which makes the incumbent very hard to displace and the through-life work, Babcock's share, worth more than the development. It also shows how far the sovereignty test in the British underwater enterprise has been relaxed in practice: what counts is a UK legal entity with UK-cleared staff, and ownership in Kiel is no bar even in the most sensitive compartment of a nuclear boat. That is worth holding against the line London takes on foreign ownership elsewhere in its submarine-heavy investment plan. Signal No. 148 carried the award without a value. Expect the eventual contract notice to land near the ministry's own figure, and the sum that matters, decades of support, never to appear in one. Sources:TKMS Atlas UK · UK Ministry of Defence · Babcock

View details and apply for this Finance Officer - Local Authority vacancy in Exeter. Role: Finance Officer REF 377891 Contract Length: Until 30/06/27 Location: Exeter or Winfrith - 1-2 weeks initially in office full time and then 2 days per week IR35: Inside Pay Rate to...

A serving Dorset Police officer who lied to his supervisor about taking time off for a dentist appointment and emailed sensitive information to his personal email has been determined to have committed gross misconduct. A misconduct hearing was held at Dorset Police headquarters in Winfrith on Tuesday 8 September 2026, chaired by Assistant Chief Constable […] The post Detective Sergeant Found to Have Committed Gross Misconduct appeared first on Dorset Eye.

View details and apply for this Subject Matter Expert (Business Systems Improvement Team) - Local Authority vacancy in Exeter. Role: Subject Matter Expert (Business Systems Improvement Team) REF 377691 Contract Length: Until 30/10/27 Location: Exeter or Winfrith IR35: Inside Pay Rate to Intermediary: £26.02 per...

View details and apply for this Senior Financial Accountant - Local Authority vacancy in Exeter. Role: Senior Financial Accountant REF 376951 Contract Length: Until 05/03/27 Location: Exeter or Winfrith - Hybrid working arrangements available, subject to business needs. IR35: Inside ...

View details and apply for this Relief Triage Operators - Local Authority vacancy in Winfrith. Role: Relief Triage Operators x 25 REF 373471 Contract Length: Until 31/01/27 Location: Winfrith or Bournemouth IR35: Inside Pay Rate to Intermediary: £19.61 per hour Spinw...

A new era begins at Dorset Innovation Park (Winfrith Newburgh, Wool) with the launch of Dorset Innovation Park Ltd – a dedicated company established to accelerate the site’s transformation into a lead...

The Environment Agency seeks public opinion on the decommissioning of the Winfrith nuclear site.

Feedback is being sought on environmental permits to continue decommissioning the Winfrith nuclear site.

After a long year, a Christmas with the BSO will get you into the festive spirit! Join us in the concert hall, online or give a voucher.

Anne visited a British Horse Society club in Bovington, the new Dorset Police headquarters in Winfrith, and the Boat Building Academy in Lyme Regis.

A phased redevelopment focusing on commercial and energy use is suggested for the Fawley site.

Dorset Wildlife Trust is re-wetting areas of peatland that were previously drained for forestry.