| Description | Visitors include Leon Brittain MP; delegations from China, Malaysia, Ghana, Zimbabwe, Algeria, Kuwait and Brunei; Sir Derek Refell, Controller of the Navy; Lord Mayor of Sheffield; Giles Shaw (Secretary of State for Industry); George Younger MP, Minister of State for Industry; Bishop of Durham; Martin O'Neill MP, Labour Party Defence spokesman; John Wilkinson MP; Newcastle United FC; Michael Noibert MP, Under Secretary for Defence Procurement; David Owen MP; Commonwealth Parliamentary Association; past and present Captains of HMS Southampton; Alan Clarke MP. Also school visits. |