Thats rotten, Shorts has a very skilled workforce with great design teams that have made some signifcant breakthroughs within the carbon fiber industry. Should they not get another buyer then it will be curtains to another skilled workforce that will be lost.
Only obvious buyer is the EU's Airbus and why would they move to the north with all the Brexit uncertainty, no gov, and bail out DUP politicians who are rabidly Anti-EU and refused to listen to Bombardier's warnings.