Siemens is planning to cut 6,900 jobs across the world due to falling global demand for the large turbines it produces.

Half of the jobs will be lost in Germany, 1,800 in USA and 1,100 in other parts of Europe from the company's fossil power generation market.

The company's biggest UK operation is in Lincoln where 1,500 people work in making and servicing small and medium gas turbines across three sites.

Teal Park

A Siemens' spokesman would not specify the number of UK jobs under threat.

But they said: "I believe there will be limited impact in Lincoln and we can manage any job losses in the UK over a number of years through people leaving the business and not being replaced and through retirement.

"We can manage it without resorting to compulsory redundancies.

"I can confirm that the £35m invested in the expansion of Teal Park is not affected."

Siemens has invested the money to build a new small gas turbine operations centre at Teal Park and buy the site.

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