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Royal observatory could be split up and sold off

15 Dec 1997

All 115 staff at the 320-year-old Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) in Cambridge stand to lose their jobs, after a management buy-out was rejected last week.

It now seems likely that the RGO will be sold and its staff either transferred to other work or made

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