MORE than 1,000 workers at a Rolls Royce plant were today bracing themselves after the company warned of the impact the US terror attack would have on business.

Staff at the Barnoldswick plant are waiting to hear whether their jobs are threatened in the aftermath of tragedy.

Airlines all over the world are affected by the crisis with a cut in the number of flights and British Airways announcing it is to cut 7,000 jobs.

Workers at Barnoldswick make wide chord fan blades for the Trent engine range.

The Rolls-Royce-powered Airbus A340-600 has been designed to take on the Boeing 747 Jumbo jet. with the Trent 500 engine attracting billions of dollars in advanced sales.

A spokesperson for Rolls-Royce said today it was too early to what affect the current situation would have on the company or on the Barnoldswick plant.

She added: "There is going to be an impact no doubt. There is a lot of work going on at the moment working on customers' priorities.

"It is too early so say what will happen but this situation in the industry will reverberate for some time to come, there is no doubt about that."

Meanwhile Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is to make a ground-breaking trip to Iran in the wake of the terrorist atrocities in America.

Mr Straw said he was keen to bring the Middle Eastern country in line with the growing international coalition forming against world terrorism. The Blackburn MP was speaking at the Foreign Office in London today before jetting off to Brussels for meetings with European counterparts.

He said that though he had planned a trip to Tehran, the capital of Iran, well before last week's events, it would now be brought forward.

He said: "Relations between Britain and Iran have improved in recent years and I had arranged to visit Tehran later in the year well before the atrocities, but as a result of a conversation between the Prime Minister and the President of Iran I have brought that visit forward."