DEFENCE giant BAe Systems, which employs 3,070 people in Hampshire, is considering whether to evacuate some of its 2,000-strong UK workforce out of Saudi Arabia amid in-creasing terror threat concerns.

"There is a lot of concern from our workers," said a BAe Systems spokesman.

They are currently providing services to the Saudi air force in a contract worth more than £2 billion a year, with the company paid in oil.