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  Arms and oil bosses refuse to attend corporate responsibility inquiry

  17 Jun 2012:

  Firms including BAE Systems, which have benefited from UK's export credit agency, fail to attend to inquiry into its work

• BAE Systems to axe 600 jobs

  31 May 2012: Defence giant BAE Systems is planning to axe more than 600 jobs and close a historic factory which made tanks for the first world war

• Arms trade shores up jobs in Brough and Barrow-in-Furness

  23 May 2012:

  Expected contracts from British and Saudi governments are confirmed, bringing new jobs to Cumbria and some relief to Humberside

• MPs to ask firms to explain how UK taxes helped dictators build arsenals

  7 May 2012: Among questionable ethical deals was £35m lent to Robert Mugabe and spent on BAE's Hawk fighter jets

• Pilotless planes project begins test flights over Irish Sea

  7 May 2012: Astraea prototypes follow programmed instructions, with the aim that they could fly missions autonomously for days at a time

• Business week in pictures

  Gallery (10 pictures), 4 May 2012:

  Recession, pubs, pay and shareholder rebellions: top stories from the business world - in pictures

• BAE under fire for executive pay and job cuts

  2 May 2012: BAE Systems came under attack from its own staff at its AGM as employees criticised plans to cut 900 manufacturing jobs in Yorkshire

• Cable & Wireless Worldwide climbs ahead of bid deadline but FTSE dips again on eurozone worries

  18 Apr 2012: Telecoms group awaits news of any offer from Tata or Vodafone, as Spain and Italy unsettle investors

• Miners support FTSE as Fresnillo benefits from higher gold production

  18 Apr 2012: Mexican miner reports fall in silver output but boost to gold from new mine

• UK defence firms fear austerity drive will shoot down export revival

  15 Apr 2012: Companies such as BAE Systems worry that coalition cutbacks could wreck attempts to persuade foreign powers to buy their products, writes Dan Milmo

• Selling arms and snooping technology is no way to help democracy, Cameron

  11 Apr 2012: Eric King: Any business deal that makes Britain complicit in extrajudicial killings, censorship and torture abroad is a Faustian pact

• David Cameron starts Asia tour in Japan – video

  Video (1min 02sec), 10 Apr 2012:

  The prime minister, David Cameron, arrives in Tokyo at the start of his tour of south-east Asia to boost trade relations with the region

• David Cameron seeks slice of Japanese defence contracts on Tokyo trip

  10 Apr 2012:

  Prime minister says decision to travel with executives from six defence contractors 'perfectly responsible and respectable'

• Sir Raymond Lygo obituary

  5 Apr 2012: Admiral and senior naval staff officer, he became embroiled in the Westland affair as chief executive of British Aerospace

• BAE wins new Eurofighter support contract

  30 Mar 2012: Britain's largest defence contractor has announced a new Eurofighter Typhoon support £446m contract that it says will sustain 600 jobs

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